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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHM 110 Pharmacy Calculations Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Presents the essential mathematics concepts and skills used by a pharmacy technician to calculate medication dosages using the formula, ratio, and dimensional analysis methods. Includes medication, drug calculations, and administration; measurement of doses; drug orders; conversions; and reconstitution. Stresses the prevention of medication errors and details the implications of any error.
Prerequisite: Second-term standing in the Pharmacy Technician program. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Use mathematical calculations and formulas to measure drug doses.
- Calculate medication dosing utilizing various analysis methods.
- Identify common medical errors.
- Explain possible implications of errors and describe preventative measures.
- Practice, preparation, and utilization of institutional skills
Content Outline
- Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, Proportions
- Number Systems
- Roman numerals
- Arabic number system
- Scientific notation
- Estimating Drug Dose
- Percentage of Error
- Elements of a Prescription, Prescription Direction, and Abbreviations
- Patient Information
- Metric Measurements and Calculating Doses
- Household Measures and Conversions
- Oral Dosing - Injectable Medications
- Subcutaneous
- Intramuscular
- Intravenous
- Temperature Measurement: Celsius vs. Fahrenheit
- Special Calculations in Compounding
- Business Math in Pharmacy
- Apothecary System
- Written and Clinical Institutional Skills
- Medication cart, floor stock, crash cart preparation and documentation
- Automated storage and dispensing medication orders
- MTM, Medication reconciliation, investigation drug documentation
- Immunization preparation and documentation
- HIPAA rules and regulations
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