Capstone Pharmacy Review & Navigate Testprep

The Most Comprehensive, Multimedia Pharmacy Review Guide Structured to Parallel NAPLEX Content Capstone Pharmacy Review enables pharmacy students to thoroughly prepare for the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX). The comprehensive Capstone Pharmacy Review is designed to match the NAPLEX blueprint and focuses on the exam’s three core competency areas, providing a unique and complete review for key exam content. It addresses key competencies such as preparation and dispensing of medications, pharmacotherapy considerations, and drug information, with review material correlating to the topic’s importance in the exam. Each new copy of Capstone Pharmacy Review includes an online access code for the interactive web-based program Navigate TestPrep: Capstone Pharmacy Review. Repeatable and customizable to the student’s needs, the online Navigate TestPrep program offers case-based questions for exam practice, valuable rationales with remediation to the text and competencies, detailed reporting, and a timed exam to simulate the real-world testing environment. *Electronic formats and eBooks do not include access to Navigate TestPrep. Access may be purchased separately. Features • The most comprehensive and expansive selection of pharmacy calculations for review and study • A review of the top 200 drugs therapeutic class, mechanism of action, patient counseling, side effects, dose, drug interactions and contraindications • A comprehensive Federal Law Review • Coverage of Pharmacology preceding a review of Therapeutics • Helpful illustrations, tables, and appendices • Access to both text and Navigate TestPrep review material including an online practice exam* • Case-based and non-based questions which address each of the three NAPLEX competencies. • Plans for individual and group study Please note: Shelley H. Otsuka should be listed as a contributor to Chapter 29, Topic: Immunizations.

About the Author :
Dr. Mason is Vice Chair and Professor at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. She earned her Pharm.D. degree from the University of Nebraska and completed a residency in Primary Care at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Dr. Mason initiated a geriatrics pharmacy curriculum and ambulatory care pharmacy service during her tenure at South Dakota State University. She then became Director of Pharmacy Education and faculty with the University of Arkansas College of Pharmacy and Family Practice Medical Residency Program.Dr. Mason is Residency Director for the Boise VA Primary Care Residency Program. She was named Idaho State University College of Pharmacy Most Influential Professor in May 2000. She plays an active role in the Idaho Society of Health System Pharmacists, Idaho Pharmacy Research and Education Foundation and the Idaho Pharmacy Leadership Council. She is recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and is a past-recipient of Pharmacist of the Year and Upjohn Pharmacy Research Award. Dr. Mason's research interests include patient medication adherence and medication utilization prescriber's patterns. Dr. Parker received her Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University in 1999. She completed a residency in Pharmacy Practice at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She has experience in the provision of drug information, independent pharmacy practice, and in collaborative private practice. She is the former Director of Clinical Pharmacy at Physicians Inc., in Lima, Ohio where she directed multiple disease state management clinics, including diabetes, heart failure, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and anticoagulation clinics. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist, a certified anticoagulation provider, a certified diabetes educator, and a clinical lipid specialist.In addition to serving as Pharmacy Practice Department Chair and assistant professor at The University of Findlay College of Pharmacy, Dr. Parker also practices part-time as a clinical pharmacist at Blanchard Valley Medical Associates (BVMA), in Findlay, Ohio, where she works collaboratively with physicians, physician assistants and nursing staff to provide patients with medication therapy management services. Dr. Lott earned his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1972 and Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota in 1977. He achieved board certification in psychiatric pharmacy in 2008. He has held faculty positions at Washington State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Washington and Idaho State University. The majority of his career has focused on the practice of psychiatric and neurologic pharmacy. In addition to his academic positions, Dr. Lott has also been a long-term care consultant pharmacist and has worked as both a pharmacy clinician and as a pharmacy director in residential facilities for adults with intellectual disabilities. He has authored and co-authored textbook chapters on the treatment of epilepsy and on the treatment of behavioral disturbances in persons with developmental disabilities. He has held his current position at Idaho State University and at the Boise VA Medical Center since 1977. He is a member of several professional organizations including the American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists, the Idaho Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists, the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Foundation, and the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of CPNP and will serve as President-Elect (2011-2012) and President (2012-2013) of CPNP.