Maths Skills for Pharmacy Unlocking Pharmaceutical Calculations

Ensuring competency in maths skills is a fundamental part of pharmacy education. Maths Skills for Pharmacy uniquely combines both the scientific calculations underpinning dosage forms with calculations relating to pharmacy practice in a single, essential volume. An innovative student-centred approach is taken throughout the text, with numerous worked examples and self-test questions to stimulate self-directed learning. Frequent case studies highlight the importance of maths to pharmacy, and help students to make that crucial connection between theory and practice, while key take-home messages for each section are summarised in concise learning-point boxes. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect latest developments and practices, including even more problem-based learning tools and an additional number of examples and case studies, with increased reference to Problem Based Learning. Written by leading academics with a wealth of experience in pharmacy education, Maths Skills for Pharmacy 2e is the ideal textbook for the subject. Digital formats and resources This text is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources available for users of the e-book and Science Trove. Resources for students include multiple-choice and short answer questions. Instructor resources include figures from the book, available to download. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

1 - Introduction: the importance of maths in pharmacy
2 - Pharmaceutical mathematical terminology
3 - Mathematical basis in pharmacy: measurements and data
4 - Maths supporting the science of pharmacy
5 - Quantities to dispense: accuracy within supply
6 - Handling pharmaceutical products: concentrations and dilutions
7 - Intravenous and associated medication routes
8 - Basic clinical pharmacokinetics
9 - Data: presentation, interpretation, and basic statistics

Professor Chris Langley is Professor of Pharmacy Law and Practice at Aston Pharmacy School, where he specialises in teaching the legal, ethical, and practice components of the undergraduate degree course. In addition, he is the Deputy Dean for the College of Health and Life Sciences within Aston University. His research interests centre on the role of the pharmacist in both primary and secondary care and work examining pharmacy educational policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Yvonne Perrie is the Head of Institute and Professor in Drug Delivery within the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Her research is multi-disciplinary and focuses on developing nanomedicines to facilitate the delivery of drugs and vaccines, thus providing practical solutions for current healthcare problems. Professor Hannah Batchelor is a Professor in Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics within the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Her research is centred on biopharmaceutics with a special interest in paediatric populations where she uses in vitro and digital models to optimise drug therapy.