Revision Guide Made Simple For Pharmacy Technicians - PTCB: 4th Edition

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This book is carefully designed to meet the needs of pharmacy technicians of this millennium. It saves time and energy since it focuses straight on the exam knowledge domains. The author's enthusiasm in pharmacy enables him to write this book for anyone who is interested in taking the PTCE. It covers all exam knowledge domains you need to study for and pass your PTCB without writing again and again.

REVISION GUIDE MADE SIMPLE FOR PHARMACY TECHNICIANS

Covers all Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Exam knowledge domains

Simplified notes on each topic

Covers over 270 practice questions and answers

Table of Contents 

1  MEDICATIONS

2  PHARMACEUTICAL ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY

3  PHARMACEUTICAL CALCULATIONS

4  BUSINESS MATH

5  FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS

6  PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

7  ORDER ENTRY AND PROCESSING

8  STATE REQUIREMENTS AND PRACTICE STANDARDS

9  INVENTORY MANAGEMENT* 

10  ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT*

11  BILLING AND REIMBURSEMENT #

12  PTCE PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

*Required for PTCB Education and Training Program

# Recommended but not required

CHAPTER 1

MEDICATIONS

INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY

PHARMACOLOGY - the study of drugs, their uses and how they affect the body.

There are two main branches of pharmacology:

Pharmacodynamics - how drugs affect the body.

Pharmacokinetics - what happens to a drug when it is administered.

The components of pharmacokinetics:

Absorption -the process where by a drug gets absorbed into the blood stream

The absorption rate affects the bioavailability of a drug.

Bioavailability is the rate and how much a drug reaches

its targeted place of action.

Factors that affect absorption:

Chemical properties

Physical properties

The person taking the drug

Distribution - where drug goes or circulates in the body

Factors that affect distribution of a drug

Tissue binding

Blood perfusion

Cell membrane permeability

Metabolism - a drug broken down by the liver

Factors that affect metabolism

Diet

Age

Sex

Hormones

Pregnancy

Disease

Excretion - elimination of waste from the body

Factors that affect excretion

Biological factors such as age and sex

Drug interaction

Urine flow rate

Distribution and binding characteristics of a drug

How to identify some of the Generic and their Brand names:

Some of the generic drugs have the same alphabet(s) at the beginning of their names as their brand names however, most of them have more than one brand name. The brand name is selected by the manufacturer or the distributor. A drug has at least 3 names; chemical, generic and brand name. The chemical name is not generally offered to study because of its complexity.

List of commonly used drugs (Top 200 drugs)