Pharmacy

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) endorses the PCAT as the official preferred admissions test for entrance into Pharmacy College, and 65 percent of pharmacy colleges require their prospective students to take the exam as part of their admissions package. Administered in January, June, August, and October, the PCAT tests a student’s verbal ability, reading comprehension, and knowledge of basic principles and concepts of biology and general and elementary organic chemistry.

Now fully revised and updated, the Kaplan PCAT 2012–2013 guide provides future pharmacy students with the best test-taking strategies to help them get the scores they need to get into the pharmacy school of their choice.

With Kaplan PCAT 2012–2013, students can take advantage of the guide’s many invaluable benefits, including:

• A full-length practice test with detailed answer explanations
• A complete diagnostic test that helps assess students’ skill level
• Complete math and science review and practice
• Proven methods for acing the difficult writing sections
• Effective score-raising strategies and tips for dealing with test-day stress

Kaplan PCAT 2012–2013 provides students with everything they need to improve their scores?guaranteed. Kaplan’s Higher Score guarantee provides security that no other test preparation guide on the market can match. Kaplan has helped more than three million students prepare for standardized tests. We invest more than $4.5 million annually in research and support for our products. We know that our test-taking techniques and strategies work and our materials are completely up-to-date. Kaplan PCAT 2012–2013 is the must-have preparation tool for every student looking to score higher!

• Tips and suggestions prepare you for test-taking success with helpful strategies and information on what to expect and how to prepare.
• A convenient outline format helps you to quickly review important information you'll see on the exam.
• Six printed mock exams feature the same format and content emphasis as the national exam.
• Ten practice exams on the Companion CD in both timed and untimed modes help you easily recognize important areas for study and identify your weaknesses.
• Over 600 electronic flash cards that cover the top 200 most prescribed pharmaceuticals, the top 50 herbals, abbreviations, and sound-alike drugs offer a quick practice tool for important information.
• Evolve Resources include everything from the Companion CD-ROM, plus appendices and internet resources, for more study opportunities.

• Mock exams have the same 100-question format used on the PTCB and ExCPT exams for a realistic test taking experience.
• The latest information on HIPPA and the Medicare Modernization Act, plus other recent pharmacy laws, keeps you up-to-date on important content featured on the PTCB exam.
• Discussions of the United States Pharmacopeia guidelines prepare you for updated material in the Compounding and Regulation sections.
• Internet resources feature links to pharmacy and PTCB and ExCPT-related web resources for access to more study tools.

Calculate with Confidence provides a clear consistent format with a step-by-step approach to the calculation and administration of drug dosages. It covers the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods. This popular text focuses on enhancing the learning experience of students at all curricular levels by making content clinically applicable. Concepts relating to critical thinking, logical thinking, and nursing process are presented throughout. New practice problems have been added throughout this edition and rationales for the answers continue to be provided giving the students a better understanding of principles related to drug dosages. This fifth edition addresses the increasing responsibility of nurses in medication and administration; emphasizes the priority for client care, and presents material that reflects the current scope of the nursing practice.

• A clear and consistent, step-by-step approach to calculations and administration makes it easy to understand.
• Ratio and Proportion, Formula, and Dimensional Analysis content provides you with well-rounded coverage.
• Pretest and post-test help identify strengths and weaknesses in competency of basic math before and assess your comprehension after Unit One: Math Review.
• Points to Remember boxes highlighted in each chapter help you remember important concepts.
• Critical thinking information that should be applied in the clinical setting to help avoid drug calculation and administration errors is boxed throughout the text.
• Full-color illustrations, photographs, and drug labels familiarize you with what you'll encounter in the clinical setting.
• Current recommendations from The Joint Commission and Institute for Safe Medication Practices are followed throughout.

• Caution boxes identify issues that may lead to medication errors and strengthen actions that must be taken to avoid calculation errors.
• Tips for Clinical Practice calls attention to information critical to math calculation and patient safety as well as issues related to practice.
• Rule boxes familiarize students with information needed to accurately solve drug calculation problems.

The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative pharmacology text in health medicine

Enhanced by more than three hundred illustrations -- many in full color

Organized to reflect the syllabi in many pharmacology courses and in integrated curricula, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 12e covers the important concepts students need to know about the science of pharmacology and its application to clinical practice. Selection of the subject matter and order of its presentation are based on the authors’ many years experience in teaching this material to thousands of medical, pharmacy, dental, podiatry, nursing, and other health science students.

To be as clinically relevant as possible, the book includes sections that specifically address the clinical choice and use of drugs in patients and the monitoring of their effects, and case studies that introduce clinical problems in many chapters. Presented in full color and enhanced by more than three hundred illustrations, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology features numerous summary tables and diagrams that encapsulate important information.

Coverage that spans every aspect of medical pharmacology:

• Basic principles
• Autonomic drugs
• Cardiovascular-renal drugs
• Drugs with important actions on smooth muscles
• Central nervous system drugs
• Drugs used to treat anemias, clotting disorders, hyperlipidemia, and inflammation and gout
• Endocrine drugs
• Chemotherapeutic and immunologic drugs
• Toxicology
• Special subjects (perinatal, geriatric, and dermatologic pharmacology)
• Botanical and "food supplements," and over-the-counter medications
• Prescribing

Also in this edition:

• Drug Summary Tables conclude most chapters, providing a concise summary of the most important drugs
• General concepts relating to newly discovered receptors, receptor mechanisms, and drug transporters
• Descriptions of important new drugs, including monoclonal antibodies