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Pharmacy Calculations for Technicians, Seventh Edition
Author(s): SKYE MCKENNON
Edition: 7
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 468
With Pharmacy Calculations for Technicians, students learn the essential mathematics concepts and skills pharmacy technicians use on the job. Clear, complete examples and practice problems provide students with the required skills for calculating and preparing drug doses in both community and institutional pharmacy settings. Students are guided, step-by- step, through several calculation methods, including basic formula, ratio and proportion, dimensional analysis, and alligation. Learn more.
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SKYE MCKENNON
Dr. Skye A. McKennon, PharmD, BCPS, ACSM-GEI is a healthcare educator, clinician, preventionist, and leader with national/international recognition in pharmacology, scholarship of teaching and learning, interprofessional education, diabetes, preventive health, and wellbeing. Dr. McKennon completed her bachelor’s and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from Washington State University. She completed postdoctoral residency training at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and received her teaching certificate from the University of Washington. Dr. McKennon has practice experience in the institutional, ambulatory, and community pharmacy settings. Her passion for teaching and education led her to faculty positions at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine where she has received honors for excellence in teaching, mentorship, scholarship, and community service.
Dr. McKennon has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals (including the American Journal of Pharmacy Education and Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning), authored several pharmacy book chapters, and co-authored eight pharmacy textbooks. She has presented at international and national symposiums such as the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting, the Pharmacy Technicians Educators Council conference, the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education annual meeting, and the International Conference on Interprofessional Practice and Education.
Courses designed and directed by Dr. McKennon include pharmacology, applied pharmacotherapeutics, institutional pharmacy practice, diabetes prevention, evidence-based preventive health, and interprofessional education. She has been both an instructor and a guest lecturer for various courses for pharmacy and other health science trainees, including calculations, therapeutics, pharmacology, pharmacotherapy, global health brigades, and law and ethics.
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