Pharmacy Practice
- 6th Edition - September 26, 2019
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jennie Watson, Louise Cogan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 4 2 9 - 5
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 4 3 0 - 1
The sixth edition of PharmacyPractice brings the contents completely up to date, reflecting emerging new roles for pharmacists both within the traditional employment areas of… Read more
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The sixth edition of PharmacyPractice brings the contents completely up to date, reflecting emerging new roles for pharmacists both within the traditional employment areas of hospital and community pharmacy, as well as other developing roles supporting the public health agenda, governance, risk management, prescribing and pharmaco-economics.
- Each chapter begins with Study Points and ends with Key Points to reinforce learning.
- Appendices include medical abbreviations, Latin terms and abbreviations, systems of weights and measurements and presentation skills.
- Some chapters also carry self-assessment questions for more complex areas of pharmaceutical practice.
Section 1: The Patient
- Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
- Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
- Communication skills for pharmacists and their team
- Consent
- History Taking/ Gathering Information
- Concordance
- Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer
- Control of medicines
- The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
- Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
- Formularies in pharmacy practice
- Complementary and alternative medicines
- Using calculations in pharmacy practice
- Veterinary pharmacy
- Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
- Oral unit dosage forms
- Packaging
- Solutions
- Suspensions
- Emulsions
- External preparations
- Suppositories and pessaries
- Powders and granules
- Production of sterile products
- Parenteral products
- Opthalmic products
- Inhaled products
- Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
- Radiopharmacy
- Specialized services
- Appliances
- Clinical governance
- Risk management
- Standard operating procedures
- Audit
- Information retrieval in pharmacy practice
- Control of health professionals and their staff
- Continuing professional development and revalidation
- The role of pharmacy in healthcare
- Ethics – the theory
- Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas
- Public health
- Structure and organization of pharmacy
- Intra- and inter-professional working
- The prescription
- Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access
- Routes of administration and dosage forms
- Labelling of dispensed medicines
- Monitoring the patient
- The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation
- Public health and pharmacy interventions
- Substance use and misuse
Section 2: The Medicine
Section 3: The Medicine Formulation
Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product
Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process
Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare
Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond
- Edition: 6
- Latest edition
- Published: September 26, 2019
- Language: English
JW
Jennie Watson
Affiliations and expertise
Boots Teacher Practitioner, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UKLC
Louise Cogan
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK