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by Chidi Osuji (Author), Kingsley Oche (With)
A Unique And Simplified Approach to Pharmacy Calculations for Healthcare Professionals is designed to unmask and untangle math calculations involving medications using a very simplified approach. It uses a systematic and logical process involving proportion principles to solve different kinds of pharmacy math problem, thus making the book ideal for all healthcare students and professionals despite backgrounds. This simplified, professional and easy-to-understand book will be ideal for the instruction of students preparing to be pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, nurses and students in other allied professions. A non-professional will also find in this book the principle at play in everyday calculations of proportions, ratios and percentages. This work text will be a very good reference calculation hand book for healthcare professionals practicing at various fields that deal with medications. The authors coaching experiences in pharmacy math calculation and compounding, as well as their practical exposure in the clinical, community and academic practice settings makes this book a compact, rare blend of theoretical and practical instructional material. I recommend this book to all healthcare professionals that handle medications and all educational institutions that offer courses involving pharmaceutical calculations.
Author Biography
Chidi received both his first and second degree from the University of Nigera, Nsukka, and has published papers in international scientific journals. He currently practices in Canada, combining academic coaching activities in a post-secondary college with clinical community pharmacy practice. His teaching experiences in pharmacy calculations, compounding, and principle/practice of pharmacy coupled with his natural propensity to write has given rise to this compact one-stop text on pharmacy calculations for healthcare professionals. As a member of CDA, CLA, ACP, he is Canadian Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), Canadian Certified Respiratory Educator (CRE), and Alberta Injection Certified with a special privilege, Additional Prescribing Authorization (APA), to prescribe schedule 1 medications in Alberta. In this book, co-authored by Kingsley Oche, and employing his real life teaching experiences, he has unveiled the secret of mastering pharmacy calculations for students and professionals using a very simple and unique but understandable format that deals with fundamental proportional principles.
