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Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists (Malone, Drug Information)

Patrick Malone, Karen Kier, John Stanovich

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Good for its purpose 3 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This book seems better suited to pharm. students rather than pharmacists. Its information is basic and serves as a good introduction for those just beginning in the world of pharmacy. Those already immersed in it may find it elementary and a bit repetitive of their daily working knowledge.

We had to read this for class 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

When I was a first year pharmacy student, we had to read this book in out drug lit. class. The book wasn't half bad, as it had lots of tools to help you decipher the medical information given on the web. I found the book more interesting than I had expected.

Midwestern Students 4 out of 5 stars.
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You will need Chapter 4 of this book to do well on the Drug Lit final spring semester of your first year. Roughly 30% of the final was based off of chapter four alone. It got me an "A" on the final and an "A" in the class.

Great Seller! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Book is in great shape and I got it quickly! Thanks for your help!

Editorial Review:

This well-known guide teaches pharmacists and pharmacy students how to more effectively and efficiently research, interpret, utilize, organize, and distribute drug information.

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia 2008 Classic Shirt-pocket Edition (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia) (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia) (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia)

Steven M. Green

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Handy pharmacology reference 5 out of 5 stars.
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This handy paharmacology quick reference book can be carried in your pocket, and you can easily locate the meds you seek, their class and dosing information faster than powering up and scrolling through a PDA.

Editorial Review:

The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia continues to be the most popular and most trusted portable drug dosing reference available! Newly updated for 2008, the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia continues the high-quality tradition of a convenient, organized, and concise pocket manual packed with vital drug information meticulously peer-reviewed by experts and clinicians of multiple specialties. It details typical drug dosing (both FDA approved and off-label uses), available trade and generic formulations, metabolism, safety in pregnancy and lactation, relative drug pricing information, Canadian trade names, and an Herbal Alternative Therapies section. Multiple invaluable tables supplement the drug content, including opioid equivalency, emergency drug infusions, cardiac dysrhythmia protocols, pediatric drug dosing, and much more.

Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry (Lemke, Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry)

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This comprehensive the Sixth Edition of this well-known text has been fully revised and updated to meet the changing curricula of medicinal chemistry courses. Emphasis is on patient-focused pharmaceutical care and on the pharmacist as a therapeutic consultant, rather than a chemist. A new disease state management section explains appropriate therapeutic options for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and men's and women's health problems. Also new to this edition: Clinical Significance boxes, Drug Lists at the beginning of appropriate chapters, and an eight-page color insert with detailed illustrations of drug structures. NEW TO THIS EDITION: Case studies from previous editions and answers to this edition's case studies will be available online at thePoint. New section on Disease State Management (Part IV) helps students understand how asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and women's and men health issues can be treated with appropriate therapeutic options. 8-page color insert contains detailed illustrations of drug structures covered within the text. Clinical Significance boxes show students how the content in each of the chapters relates to effective pharmaceutical care. Drug Lists at the beginning of appropriate chapters are bulleted lists that provide students with a summary of the drugs covered within the chapter.

Clinical Calculations: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas

Joyce LeFever Kee, Sally M. Marshall

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Covering all four major drug calculation methods, this resource makes it easy to learn and apply drug calculations used in nursing practice today. Clear explanations of ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis allow you to choose the method that works best for you. A variety of realistic practice problems cover specialty areas and lifespan issues including pediatric, critical care, labor and delivery, and community settings.

• Specialty areas and lifespan issues are addressed with drug calculation problems on pediatrics, critical care, pediatric critical care, labor and delivery, and the community setting.
• All four major drug calculation methods are included - ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis - allowing you to choose the method that works best for you.
• Caution boxes provide safety alerts for various medications and their administration.
• Coverage of the latest drug administration techniques and devices includes detailed explanations of oral, intravenous, intra-muscular, subcutaneous and other routes used in drug administration.
• A comprehensive post-test allows you to test your knowledge of all major topics covered in the text.
• Updated and easier to use, a companion CD supports the book with realistic exercises, 565 practice problems, and a comprehensive post-test.
• Useful appendices include step-by-step guidelines for the administration of oral, injectable, and intravenous medications, along with at-a-glance access to the BSA Nomogram for Adults and the West Nomogram for Infants and Children.

• Guidelines set by The Joint Commission are followed, helping you to reduce medication errors and increase patient safety by using only the recommended abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols.
• Calculations now address obese and debilitated patients by including Body Mass Index (BMI), Ideal Body Weight (IBW), and Adjusted Body Weight (ABW) methods of calculation.
• Updated coverage of Pediatric Critical Care and Labor and Delivery reflects current parameters and guidelines for practice.
• Coverage of hydration replacement shows how to determine the fluid needs of adults and the elderly.
• Coverage of administering medication and medication solutions in the home prepares you for care of patients in home health care settings.
• Coverage of calculating BMI with standard criteria helps you assess a patient's overall health and measure obesity.
• Updated drug labels, illustrations, and photos of pumps and IV equipment reflect the latest drugs and technology used in the market.

Delmar's Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam Review

Patricia K. Anthony

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Errors 1 out of 5 stars.
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Personally, I don't trust books with errors in them, whether they be grammatical or technical or any other sort. That's why that upon finding that this book failed to spell PTCB correctly on the first page of the introduction, I returned the book immediately. For a book from the same publishing company that produced the Comprehensive Exam Review for the Pharmacy Technician, I'm sufficiently surprised. I would highly recommend only two books to study for the PharmTech Exam: The Comprehensive Exam Review for the Pharmacy Technician written by Jahangir Moini and a supplemental calculation book.

Editorial Review:

Ideal for review courses and for individual study, this book is a must-have tool for anyone preparing to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination. Concise reviews of the critical topics outlined by the Pharmacy Certification Training Board, along with review tests at the end of each chapter, assess your current knowledge and identify areas that need further study. In addition to end-of-chapter practice questions, two cumulative tests at the end of the book provide practice for taking the full-length exam. If additional math practice is what you need, you'll find 14 chapters that focus specifically on math and include additional math questions. This new edition includes greatly expanded information on pharmacology, pharmaceutical agents, the effect of drugs on specific body systems and conditions, and drug interactions.

Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)

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"Don't Listen To Mr. Know-It-All" GREAT SERIES of Books! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I totally DISAGREE with the inappropriate review from the so-called educated "SNOB" trying to knock the entire series down by labeling prospective buyers as lazy and only looking for quick and easy ways to learn! I personally own seven books from the Incredibly Easy/Visual Series and would HIGHLY recommend all of them. They are wonderful books. I am a visual learner myself and things started clicking for me when I put this series of books together with my text books.

If Mr. Las Vegas REALLY has an ADVANCED degree, then why did he purchase a book with this title in the first place? Is he a professor or something and looking for a supplement book for his pupils?

I am a nursing student with Adult ADHD/Bipolar Disorder. I also carry a 3.97 GPA and it's NOT EASY by a long-shot. I think if a person can find a book that helps them halfway understand the subject matter better, then power to them! EVERYONE LEARNS DIFFERENTLY at different paces.

Editorial Review:

Now in its second edition, Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! contains everything the nurse needs to review and the nursing student needs to learn about how drugs act and interact in the treatment of disease. The book focuses on mechanisms of drug action; details specific drugs by pharmacologic class; reviews the nursing process related to each drug category for all body systems, plus pain medications, anti-infective drugs, and cancer drugs; and highlights potentially dangerous interactions, including drug-herb interactions. It does all of this in the award-winning, light-hearted Incredibly Easy! style that makes intimidating concepts thoroughly approachable.

APhA's Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician (Apha Pharmacy Technician Training)

William A. Hopkins

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GREAT book for self-study! 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I have not taken any pharmacy tech courses. I have had three months experience as a retail pharmacy tech, then we relocated to a different state that pretty much requires you have certification. For the past 2.5 months, I have been studying on my own and this book has been SO amazingly helpful.

The author has written the book as though he were a friendly tutor with a sense of humor. It is definitely not a dry, boring math book. With every new concept, he starts you out with really easy concepts (using apples when explaining fractions or using a simple rice recipe when introducing reducing/enlarging formulas). It gives you a chance to wrap your head around what he's doing before getting into the pharmaceutical applications. Don't get me wrong, though... he definitely challenges you once you've had a chance to understand it.

One of the first chapters in the book teaches you all about units & conversions. This is probably the most important chapter in the whole book because you have to use the info in it to be able to work all the other problems. He uses helpful tables that you can refer back to. From my own personal experience, a couple chapters after the units/conversions chapter, I'd flipped back to the tables enough that I had them memorized without trying.

Rather than bogging you down with lots of formulas, he teaches how to solve most problems using simple logic and/or ration & proportion. There are a few formulas (I think I've used 3 so far), but he only uses them when necessary. I feel like the way I've learned to work problems from this book has much more real-world applicability than if I had learned a dozen formulas and panicked when I couldn't remember them on the job.

Another thing I love & appreciate about this book is that, for example, if you're working a problem in chapter 8, he'll throw in steps from chapter 2 or 5 or 7 to keep you on your toes. In other words, you'll have to solve part of the problem using concepts you learned earlier in the book in order to get to what you need to solve the current problem. It keeps you refreshed on ALL the material so that you don't finish the book & find that you've forgotten half of it.

The answers to the practice problems are also helpful. He not only gives you the answers in the back of the book, but he SHOWS how he got the answers and/or gives a brief explanation. Other books I looked at had reviews about lots of typos, but I've worked 10 of the 13 chapters in this book and have not had any problems.

I HIGHLY recommend this book, especially if you're a self-studier like me. It takes away a lot of the anxiety about not having an instructor to ask for help because the book explains everything so well and in a friendly manner. I take the PTCE in 3 days, and after having put in some quality time with this book and taking some practice tests in other books, I feel very well prepared.

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I received my PTCE score this week. Not only did I pass, but I got an 868 (the scale is 300-900; you need a 650 to pass). The majority of the test was math-related. I'm SO glad I used this book!

Editorial Review:

APhA’s Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician is a friendly, self-instructional approach to lifelong understanding of pharmacy calculations. Filled with real-world practice problems and the author’s good humor and encouragement, the book is a unique training resource, whether for the classroom, the national Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination, or the pharmacy practice setting.

PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs, 2008 (Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements)

Thomson Healthcare

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The essential guide to OTC medications and more

Nonprescription medications are nearly as varied and complex as Rx drugs and with their usage continuing to increase, it s important to stay current on the remedies that your patients are using. The new 2008 PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs helps you do that by providing information on OTC drugs, supplements, and herbs that is organized by therapeutic categories and is current and comprehensive.

With complete descriptions of the most commonly used OTC medications, you get comprehensive, at-a-glance information such as:

Ingredients, indications, and interactions of hundreds of OTC drugs

Administration and dosages recommended for symptomatic relief

Color photographs of OTC drugs for quick identification

Organized by therapeutic categories for fast access

NEW A section on devices, diagnostics, and nondrug products

Plus, this comprehensive volume now includes two full sections on dietary supplements and herbs all fully cross-referenced and organized alphabetically for speedy access and ease-of-use.

Valuation in Life Sciences: A Practical Guide

Boris Bogdan, Ralph Villiger

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This book is the first complete guide to valuation in life sciences for industry professionals, investors, and academics. Boris Bogdan and Ralph Villiger introduce the characteristics of drug and medical device development, explain how to translate these into the valuation, and provide valuable industry data. After guiding the reader through the theory of valuation, including discounted cash-flow and real options, the authors demonstrate how to value projects, patents, licences, firms and stocks on real-life examples, even treating complex licence and company structures. Special emphasis is put on the practicability of the proposed methods by including many hands-on examples, without compromising on realistic results. Ralph Villiger and Boris Bogdan have written what is sure to become the industry standard reference for valuation of pharmaceutical and biotechnology projects and companies. At a time when the healthcare industry is placing increasing emphasis on licensing and M&A as a core strategy this book provides a firm understanding of the way in which products and businesses can be valued at all stages of their development.

Dr. Martin Buckland, Chief Business Officer, Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge, UK

The book presents a number of innovative ideas, illustrated with practical examples that should improve decision-making in the drug development process, intellectual property evaluation, licensing and sublicensing. The authors make a persuasive case for the use of advanced techniques and the section on worked-examples should be particularly appealing to practitioners.

Dr. Martin Grossmann, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

There is no doubt that this book will become an essential reference tool for professionals in technology transfer, business developers and biotech companies, as well as the pharmaceutical industry and Life Science investors.

Jean-Pierre Saintouil, Director of Technology Transfer Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Pharmacology: A Nursing Process Approach

Joyce LeFever Kee, Evelyn R. Hayes, Linda E. McCuistion

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With a concise, straightforward approach, this trusted text puts difficult concepts and essential drug calculation skills into a practical nursing context and prepares you for real-world responsibilities. Completely revised and updated with the most current information in nursing practice, a variety of strong learning tools, and new NCLEX"¥ examination study questions, this latest edition makes pharmacology more accessible than ever.

• UNIQUE! Prototype Drug Charts provide you with quick reference to key drug information, including dosages, contraindications, drug-lab-food interactions, pharmacokinetics, and more.
• UNIQUE! An extensive Dosage Calculations unit strengthens your mathematical skills and eliminates the need for a separate calculations book.
• Nursing Process summaries guide you through client care and drug therapy within the step-by-step framework of the nursing process.
• Critical Thinking Case Studies challenge you to apply your knowledge and analytical skills to realistic patient scenarios.
• A Principles of Drug Administration chapter guides you through drug administration procedures, addressing all routes of administration and various settings.
• Client Teaching sections prepare you for client interaction, with teaching tips for general drug administration, self-administration, diet, side effects, and cultural considerations.
• A companion CD reinforces your knowledge and enhances your review with approximately 450 NCLEX examination-style review questions, including alternate-item format questions; 30 pharmacology animations; IV therapy and medication error checklists; drug calculation problems; and electronic dosage calculators.
• UNIQUE! Illustrated overviews of normal anatomy and physiology in all drug therapy chapters help you understand how drugs work in various body systems.
• An appendix on bioterrorism agents helps you recognize the clinical manifestations of bioterrorism weapons and respond with appropriate drug treatments.
• UNIQUE! Herbal Alerts provide quick reference to side effects, drug interactions, and additional information for popular herbs you may encounter in practice.

• NCLEX Examination-style Study Questions prepare you for the growing pharmacology coverage on the NCLEX-RN exam.
• Updated and expanded Preventing Medication Errors boxes help you ensure safe drug administration.
• Targeted Therapies to Treat Cancer chapter familiarizes you with cutting-edge cancer treatments such as multikinase inhibitors, angiogenesis inhibitors, and monoclonal antibodies.
• A new unit helps you easily locate appropriate drug therapy for managing pain and inflammation.
• Additional photos and illustrations visually reinforce your understanding of drug actions and relevant anatomy and physiology.
• Separate units on antibacterial and antiinfective agents clearly differentiate these commonly used agents.
• Page numbers accompany key terms for easier reference.