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Certification Exam Review: The Pharmacy Technician Series
Mike Johnston
NPTA

ISBN-10: 0131147390
ISBN-13: 9780131147393

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 192 pp
Published: 07/08/2005

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Used in the Pharmacy Technician Sequence and specifically for Exam Preparation at a two year and career college.

 

The Perfect Balance!!

The National Pharmacy Technician Association endorses this comprehensive series.  It helps students achieve the perfect balance of the complex skills and the professional demeanor necessary for the increasingly important role of a Pharmacy Technician.

 

Over 180,000 individuals are nationally certified pharmacy technicians in the US.  Many states require national certification to practice and due to increase involvement and patient interaction more states are adopting such regulations.  Achieving recognized credentials will bring about an increase in both salary and career opportunities.

Weighted Content.

 

The key difference about this book is that the text content is weighted according to the national certification exam.  PTCB, the certifying board, clearly defines the percentage of content covered by the exam, yet other “review books” cover the content equally — making them, in essence, training manuals.  This book has one fundamental purpose — to aide you in successfully passing the PTCB national certification exam…on the first attempt.  This text has removed all of the “fluff” and has focused on presenting you with the specific information and concepts you need to master to pass the exam.  It is that simple.

 

Practice Exams.

In addition, to ensure your success, we have incorporated three complete certification practice exams.  Each exam has125 multiple choice questions, weighted according to PTCB content guidelines, and should be completed within three hours — providing a true replica of the certification exam process.   

Answers.

The answers have been provided at the back of the manual for each practice exam, and we included the rational for each answer for the first practice exam — again, all to ensure your success!

 

 1. Getting Certified.

            What is a Pharmacy Technician?

            What is Certification?

            What is the PTCB?

            The Exam Criteria

            Why Get Certified?

            Recertification.

 2. Assisting the Pharmacist in Serving Patients.

            Duties of a Pharmacy Technician.

            Policies, Procedures and Technicians.

            Quality Assurance.

            Defining the Prescription.

            Scope of Practice.

            How to Identify Potential Forged/Altered Prescriptions.

            Reviewing Medication Orders.

            Patent Profiles and Changes.

            Reactions and Interactions.

            Processing the Medication Order.

            Transferring Prescriptions.

            Compounding Medications.

            Compounding Equipment.

            Intravenous Admixtures.

            Major Pharmacy Laws.

            Refilling Prescriptions.

            The Controlled Substances Act.

            Poison Prevention Packaging Act.

            Question Patient/Busy Pharmacist: The Dispensing of Information.

            Reference Materials.

            Pharmaceutical Billing.

            Collecting From a Third Party.

            Inventory Control.

            Inventory Management Systems.

 3. Maintaining Medication/ Inventory Control.

            Ordering Systems.

            Special Ordering and Receiving Circumstances.

            Medication Storage.

            Safe Handling of Cytotoxic and Hazardous Materials/Chemicals.

            Medication Distribution.

            Automated Dispensing Systems.

            Crash/Code Carts and Emergency Boxes.

            Controlled Substances.

            Investigational Drugs.

            Removing Stock From Inventory.

            Bulk Compounding and Repackaging of Pharmaceuticals.

 4. Participating in the Administration and Management of Pharmacy.

            Knowledge.

            Skills.

            Pharmacy Practice.

            The Business of Pharmacy.

            Policies and Procedures.

 5. Review of Pharmacy Calculations.

            Systems of Measurement.

            Ratios and Proportions.

            Dosage Calculations.

            Concentrations.

            Dilutions.

            Milliequivalents.

            Flow Rates.

            Alligations.

            Business Math.

 6. Pharmacy Law & Ethics.

            Frederick II.

            Federal Food And Drug Act of 1906.

            International Opium Convention of 1912.

            Federal Narcotic Drug Act of 1914.

            Food, Drug And Cosmetic Act of 1938.

            Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951.

            Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962.

            Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

            OBRA ’90.

            HIPPA.

            Ethics.

            Consequentialism.

            Non-Consequentialism.

            Social Contracts.

            Ethics of Care.

            Code of Ethics.

 7. Top 200 Drugs.

 8. Practice Exam I.

 9. Practice Exam II.

10. Practice Exam III.

Appendix A: Review of Abbreviations & Terminology.

Appendix B: Professional Resources. 

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