Mosby's Advanced Pharmacy Technician

1st Edition - September 29, 2020
Author: Karen Davis
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 1 4 1 - 3
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 1 4 2 - 0

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Take your career to the next level with Mosby’s Advanced Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice! Beginning with an exploration of expanding roles for the pharmacy technician, this resource includes coverage of leadership, management, and technical skills to support career progression and preparation for the new Advanced Pharmacy Technician certification credential. Case studies, critical thinking exercises, chapter quizzes, and a sample exam provide ample opportunities for skills assessment. A perfect companion to Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician, this text provides you with the knowledge and tools needed to take charge of your career in the fast-paced and exciting field of pharmacy technology!

(Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician sold seperately.)

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of Reviewers
Preface
Dedication
Part 1: The Advanced Pharmacy Technician
1: Current and Expanding Role of the Pharmacy Technician
Introduction
Organizations involved in technician training
Patient safety, error prevention, and technician training
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
2: Training and Skills for Advanced Pharmacy Technician Roles
Introduction
Advantages of advanced-trained technicians
Clinical and operational skills for advanced technician roles
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
3: Leadership and Management Skills
Introduction
Advanced technician leader roles
Advanced technician as managers
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
4: Communication Within the Interdisciplinary Team
Introduction
Necessity of interdisciplinary teamwork
Interdisciplinary care team: key members and roles
Benefits of good communication for the interdisciplinary team
Strategies for promoting good ict communication
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
Part 2: Operational and Clinical Skills
5: Operational Functions
Introduction
Benefits of using advanced technicians in pharmacy operations
Benefits of using advanced technicians in the patient-centered model
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
6: Technology and Dispensing Systems
Introduction
Patient safety considerations enhanced through the use of automated dispensing systems
Benefits of automated dispensing systems and technology for today’s pharmacy
Remote pharmacy (telepharmacy)
Common responsibilities for advanced technicians working with technology or automated dispensing systems
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
7: Advanced Clinical Skills in Community and Institutional Settings
Introduction
Evolution of clinical services provided by today’s pharmacy
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
8: Patient Medication Compliance and Monitoring
Introduction
The importance of medication adherence
Types of medication nonadherence
Barriers to medication adherence
Strategies to improve medication adherence
Methods used in ongoing assessment and measurement of success
Use of advanced technicians in medication adherence programs
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
9: Sterile Products and Hazardous Drugs
Introduction
Overview of chapter 797 pharmaceutical compounding—sterile preparations
Responsibilities of advanced technicians in sterile compounding roles
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
10: Controlled Substance Diversion and Tracking
Introduction
Opioids and common terminology used in association with opioid addiction
Organizational strategies to combat the opioid crisis
Effects on public safety and cost of diversion
Other initiatives that benefit the public
Advanced technician opportunities in controlled drug diversion prevention and tracking programs
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
11: Medication Verification
Introduction
Effect of cost of medications on today’s pharmacy services
Advanced technician roles in medication verification
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
Part 3: Launching Your Career
12: Education and Training
Introduction
Pharmacy technician certification board
Certified pharmacy technician advanced
Additional education and opportunities to advance the technician’s career
Review Questions
Critical Thinking Question
Appendix
Glossary
Index

Karen Davis

Dr. Karen D. Davis is a Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, and Head of the Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience at the Krembil Brain Institute; University Health Network. She obtained her PhD in Physiology from the University of Toronto and did a post-doctoral fellowship at John Hopkins University. Dr. Davis is founding member of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain and currently sits on its Executive Committee. Dr. Davis’s early work involved single cell electrophysiology, with discoveries of brain neurons that encode vascular headaches, “silent” nociceptors capable of chemical and injury-induced sensitization, and human cortical neurons encoding pain and attention. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Davis has pioneered electrophysiological and brain imaging approaches to investigate mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain and pain-attention interactions. More recently, she has focused on outcomes of traumatic injuries, plasticity associated with treatment and recovery, and individual factors that contribute to disease vulnerability, recovery, and treatment outcomes. Dr. Davis has given over 175 invited lectures and her work has culminated in 200+ papers and book chapters, with over 16,000 citations and an H-index of 66. She also created a TED-Ed video “How does your brain respond to pain?” viewed over 1.6 million times. Dr. Davis has been a Councillor of the International Association for the Study of Pain, is active in neuroethics, research ethics, created a graduate student oath (published in Science), and chaired the IASP presidential task force on the use brain imaging to diagnosis pain, with recommendations published in Nature Reviews Neurology. Dr. Davis has served on the CIHR Advisory Board for the Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction, and has been section editor for the international journal Pain and PainReports. She was a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow and currently sits on their advisory board. Dr. Davis has been inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and has received research and mentorship awards. She is currently President-Elect of the Canadian Pain Society and will serve as its president from 2020-22.

Affiliations and expertise

Krembil Brain Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Canada