APhA's Complete Review for Pharmacy

The NAPLEX® (North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination™) is the standard licensing examination that all U.S. pharmacy students must pass to practice pharmacy. It’s an arduous exam that tests a daunting range of knowledge. Approximately 10% of students taking the exam for the first time fail to achieve a passing score.

Preparing for the NAPLEX® by reviewing all the material from each of your pharmacy school courses would be overwhelming. A far better approach would be to review the most up-to-date, relevant information available on the practice of pharmacy, and that’s what APhA’s Complete Review for Pharmacy contains.

In preparing APhA’s Complete Review for Pharmacy, Dr. Dick R. Gourley, Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, and more than 40 of his faculty members identified the information most relevant to the exam. This study guide summarizes that material and uses an abbreviated bullet format to enable you to review the key points efficiently for easy recall and recognition.

Features:

Top 200 drugs—The first place to begin your NAPLEX® preparation is to learn the generic and trade names for the top 200 drugs (see Appendices).

Math—After generic and trade names, pharmacy math is the most important single area to review (see Chapter 1).

Drug therapy for chronic and common diseases—This is the heart of today’s NAPLEX® and the subject of more than half the 36 chapters in this study guide.

Summary tables of the major drug categories—including dosage schedules and dosage forms are provided in each of the therapeutic chapters.

Review questions—All chapters end with 20 or more practice exam questions and answers, plus explanations that reinforce key learning points.

Seasoned advice on studying for and taking the NAPLEX® from James C. Eoff III, Pharm.D.—Eoff, Executive Associate Dean and Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, has taught a NAPLEX® review course for more than 30 years.