Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage to address all aspects of compounding for the changing role of the modern Pharmacy Technician
- Content built and mapped to ASHP accreditation competencies and model curriculum needs
- Detailed procedure boxes with step-by-step instructions, technique photos, and rationales for each step
- Work products including competency forms, lab activities, and sample compounding orders, charts, and forms
- Focus on practical application with Tech Notes, Tech Alerts, and Did You Know? boxes
- Robust practice opportunities including in-text chapter questions plus chapter quizzes, review questions, and a sample CSPT exam on Evolve
Author Information
By Karen Davis, AAHCA, BHS, CPhT, Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT), Lyons, Georgia and Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South Carolina
PART I: Foundations
1. Communication Within and Beyond the Pharmacy
2. Infection Control and Waste Management
PART II: Nonsterile Compounding
3. Introduction to Nonsterile (Extemporaneous) Compounding
4. United States Pharmacopeia USP <795>: Pharmaceutical Compounding – Nonsterile Preparations
5. The Nonsterile Environment
6. Nonsterile Equipment and Supplies
7. Preparation of Nonsterile Compounds
8. Calculations for Nonsterile Compounds
9. Nonsterile Medication Administration
10. Bulk Repackaging and Long-Term Care Practice
11. Veterinary Compounding
12. Packaging, Labeling, and Documentation of Nonsterile Compounds
PART III: Sterile Compounding
13. Introduction to Sterile Compounding
14. Medications and Disease Management
15. United States Pharmacopeia USP<797>: Pharmaceutical Compound – Sterile Preparations
16. The Sterile Environment
17. Sterile Equipment and Supplies
18. Calculations Used in Intravenous Preparations
19. Sterile Medication Administration
20. Sterile Practice
21. Packaging, Labeling, and Documentation of Compounded Sterile Products
PART IV: Nonsterile and Sterile Compounding
22. Total Parenteral Nutrition
23. United States Pharmacopeia<800> Hazardous Pharmaceuticals
24. Hazardous Drug Preparation
25. United States Pharmacopeia<825> Radiopharmaceutical - Preparation, Compounding, Dispensing, and Repackaging
26. Quality Management, Safety, and Patient Compliance
27. Third-Party Billing, Reimbursement, and Inventory Management
28. Operations and Emergency Preparedness
29. Looking Forward
Appendix
A. Procedure Evaluation Checklists
B. Practice Exercises
