Mosby's Pharmacy Technician Exam Review / Edition 4

by James J. Mizner Jr, RPh, MBA

Overview

Prepare for success on your certification exam! Mosby's Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, 4th Edition provides a complete review of core knowledge, thousands of review questions, and nine practice exams – plus a custom online engine that allows for unlimited opportunities to practice specific topics or create unique simulated exams. A bulleted, outline format makes review easier, reinforcing understanding with full-color illustrations, photographs, and summary tables. All questions reflect the latest exam blueprints. This resource provides you comprehensive support every step of the way for entry-level or sterile compounding certification.

• Convenient, easy-to-follow outline format provides a comprehensive review of pharmacy technician exam topics.
• Mapping tables link content to the knowledge categories on the PTCE and ExCPT exam blueprints, including pharmacology and medications, law, patient safety, and quality assurance.
• 700 electronic flashcards help you memorize key facts by covering the most commonly prescribed drugs, common herbals, abbreviations, and more.

• NEW! UPDATED organization of content matches the newest exam blueprints.
• NEW and UNIQUE! Comprehensive coverage prepares you for entry-level Pharmacy Technician certification, plus the sterile compounding specialty exam.
• NEW! Online custom test generator creates timed, simulated exams built from exam blueprints and allows you to focus your practice on any areas of weakness.
• EXPANDED! More than 2,600 review questions – all with answers and rationales – include a pretest, questions in each chapter, nine printed practice examinations, and unlimited practice and simulation online.
• NEW Compounded Sterile Products chapter provides an in-depth review specifically for the CSPT exam. 
• NEW! Full-color illustrations visually reinforce important test information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323497244
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	08/21/2019
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	353
Sales rank:	285,484
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jim Mizner is a registered pharmacist in the state of Virginia, where he has actively practiced for more than 30 years. Jim has experience teaching in the Pharmacy Technician space and transitioned into instructional design and administration in the for-profit sector in the early 2000s, where he worked for about a decade before starting his consulting business. Jim is the founding author of Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, which has prepared thousands of students and practitioners to pass the certification exam, and has worked as an item writer and consultant in the development of Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician. He is active in the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC) and works closely with the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). In addition, Jim serves as an accreditation site visitor for ABHES.

Table of Contents

Pretest 1. Medications 2. Pharmacy Law 3. Patient Safety and Quality Assurance 4. Prescription Processing 5. NEW! Compounded Sterile Products

Practice Examinations

Practice Exams for PTCB (5 total) Practice Exams for ExCPT (2 total) Practice Exams for CSPT (2 total)

Appendices A: Certification Examination Information B: Drug Nomenclature: Stems Used by the U.S. Adopted Names Council C: Top 200 Prescribed Medications (Based on Filled Prescriptions) D: Common Over-the-Counter Products E: Institute for Safe Medication Practices List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations F: Medical Root Words, Suffixes and Prefixes G: Pharmaceutical Abbreviations H: Medical Abbreviations Answers and Rationales Index

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Prepare for pharmacy technician certification exams with 2,600 review questions