WHYS IN PHARMACY
UNIT 1: REVIEW OF MATHEMATICS CHAPTER 1: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PHARMACY INTRODUCTION PHARMACY PRACTICE SETTINGS RETAIL PHARMACIES HOSPITAL PHARMACY PRACTICE OTHER PHARMACY PRACTICE SETTINGS THE PROBLEM OF MEDICATION ERRORS BECOMING A GOOD PHARMACY TECHNICIAN ACCURACY AND PRECISION CHAPTER 2: NUMBERS AND NUMERALS NUMBERS AND NUMERALS WHAT IS A NUMBER? WHAT IS A NUMERAL? NUMBER SYSTEMS RATIONAL AND REAL NUMBERS PLACE VALUE ROUNDING NUMBERS CHAPTER 3: REVIEW OF BASIC MATH OPERATIONS ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION WORKING WITH FRACTIONS DECIMAL FRACTIONS ORDER OF OPERATIONS UNIT 2: SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT CHAPTER 4: THE METRIC SYSTEM METRIC MEASUREMENTS LENGTH WEIGHT VOLUME CONVERSIONS WITHIN THE METRIC SYSTEM USING DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS CONTENTS CHAPTER 5: APOTHECARY AND HOUSEHOLD MEASUREMENTS AND METRIC CONVERSIONS APOTHECARY SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES APOTHECARY UNITS HOUSEHOLD AND AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES UNITS OF WEIGHT AND VOLUME MEASURING DOSES ACCURATELY WORKING PROBLEMS USING HOUSEHOLD MEASUREMENTS CONVERTING BETWEEN SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT CONVERSION FACTORS PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE CONVERSIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS CHAPTER 6: MEASURING TIME AND TEMPERATURE HOURS, MINUTES, AND SECONDS THE 24-HOUR CLOCK: MILITARY TIME RULES FOR CONVERSIONS USING MILITARY TIME MEASURING TEMPERATURES FAHRENHEIT AND CENTIGRADE CONVERTING BETWEEN TEMPERATURE SCALES UNIT 3: PREPARING FOR PROBLEM SOLVING IN PHARMACY CHAPTER 7: READING A PRESCRIPTION WHAT IS A PRESCRIPTION? PARTS OF A PRESCRIPTION PRESCRIBER INFORMATION PATIENT INFORMATION RX: DRUG NAME, STRENGTH, FORMULATION, AND QUANTITY SIG: DIRECTIONS FOR USE INTERPRETING AND TRANSCRIBING PRESCRIPTIONS COMMON LATIN AND OTHER MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS CALCULATING PRESCRIPTION QUANTITIES PREPARING A LABEL FROM A PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION ERRORS IN THE PHARMACY POTENTIAL SOURCES OF ERROR WHEN INTERPRETING PRESCRIPTIONS ERROR-PRONE ABBREVIATIONS LOOK-ALIKE, SOUND-ALIKE DRUG NAMES AND PACKAGING CHAPTER 8: USING CRITICAL THINKING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS EQUATIONS AND UNKNOWNS SOLVING EQUATIONS USING ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, OR DIVISION WORD PROBLEMS UNIT 4: DOSING CALCULATIONS AND OTHER PHARMACY PROBLEMS CHAPTER 9: RATIOS AND PROPORTIONS AND HOW TO USE THEM RECOGNIZING RATIOS PRACTICE WITH RATIOS DRUG STRENGTHS AND CONCENTRATIONS AS RATIOS PROPORTION EQUATIONS PRACTICE WITH PROPORTION EQUATIONS CHAPTER 10: CALCULATING DRUG DOSES COMMON DOSING PROBLEMS DOSING BASED ON BODY WEIGHT CARING FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS DOSING BASED ON BODY SURFACE AREA BODY SURFACE AREA NOMOGRAMS DRUG DOSES MEASURED IN INTERNATIONAL UNITS MEASURING AND CALCULATING INSULIN DOSES CHAPTER 11: PERCENT STRENGTHS AND DILUTIONS PERCENT STRENGTHS PERCENT WEIGHT-IN-VOLUME PERCENT WEIGHT-IN-WEIGHT PERCENT VOLUME-IN-VOLUME MILLIGRAMS PERCENT AND PARTS PER MILLION CONCENTRATED SOLUTIONS AND DILUTIONS ALLIGATION MEDIAL ALLIGATION ALTERNATE CHAPTER 12: FORMULAS AND COMPOUNDING UNDERSTANDING COMPOUNDING FORMULAS REDUCING AND ENLARGING FORMULAS USING ALIQUOTS DENSITY AND SPECIFIC GRAVITY DETERMINING PERCENT ERROR CHAPTER 13: IV INFUSIONS AND INJECTABLE DRUGS RECONSTITUTING MEDICATIONS MILLIEQUIVALENTS AND MILLIMOLES VALENCE AND EQUIVALENT WEIGHTS INTRAVENOUS INFUSION FLOW RATES INFUSION PUMPS CHAPTER 14: BUSINESS MATH MARKUP, GROSS PROFIT, AND NET PROFIT DISCOUNT AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE INVENTORY DEPRECIATION