how hard are pharmacy calculations?

[shimme]

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For a person that's just average at math and chemistry calculations, like dilutions and such,
how hard are pharmacy calculations? Do you have to be intuitive and such?
Will pharmacy school teach you all the essentials you need to know to make these calculations?

Thanks..

 

[Passion4Sci]

For a person that's just average at math and chemistry calculations, like dilutions and such,
how hard are pharmacy calculations? Do you have to be intuitive and such?
Will pharmacy school teach you all the essentials you need to know to make these calculations?

Thanks..

You'll be challenged if you're just average. But why settle for average? Dilutions, stoich., all can be practiced to perfection. A really strong grasp of chemistry is absolutely fundamental, IMO, to the practice of pharmacy. Without it, pharmacokinetics will just own your face in, to use colloquial terms.

 

[rxlea]

There are cheat sheets for antibiotic dosing and TPN monitoring. I love the vanco dosing one - step by step

 

[naseuy]

For a person that's just average at math and chemistry calculations, like dilutions and such,
how hard are pharmacy calculations? Do you have to be intuitive and such?
Will pharmacy school teach you all the essentials you need to know to make these calculations?

Thanks..

Ridiculously easy.