Product Description

Featuring detailed patient profiles and over 600 sample prescriptions, this unique book teaches students how to read, fill, and evaluate prescriptions based on patient profiles. Students will learn how to decipher handwritten prescriptions, examine prescriptions for inappropriate doses or instructions, evaluate the prescription relative to the patient's drug and social history, fill prescriptions accurately and promptly, and counsel patients based on their prescriptions and histories. This edition includes over 350 new prescriptions. A new appendix, Puzzles and Problems, gives students experience with prescriptions that are difficult to decipher or would cause serious harm to the patient if filled as written.

ISBN 9780781765695Edition 02Binding Unknown