Full Description
The fifth edition of Pharmaceutical Practice has been totally overhauled and restructured to bring the contents completely up to date and to reflect 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 pharmacoeconomics. It covers a wide range of subjects relevant to pharmacy practice, including communication skills, managing a business, quality assurance, dispensing, calculations, packaging, storage and labeling of medicines, sterilization, prescriptions, hospital-based services, techniques and treatments, adverse drug reactions, cost-benefit, and medicines management. Each chapter begins with Study Point and ends with Key Points to reinforce learning.Appendices include medical abbreviations, Latin terms and abbreviations, systems of weights and measurements, presentation skills and key references.Self-assessment questions for more complex areas of pharmaceutical practice.New chapters on control of medicines; control of health professionals and their staff; ethics in practice; Standard Operating Procedures; structure and organisation of pharmacy; veterinary pharmacy; appliances; public health, and pharmacy interventions.New editor on the team, Jennie Watson. Many new contributors, comprising practising pharmacists, teachers of pharmacy, and pharmacists with joint appointments between hospital/community pharmacy and universities.
Contents
Section 1The role of pharmacy in healthcareModels of pharmacy practice within healthcare systemsSocio-behavioural aspects of health and illnessSocio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicinesPharmacy and public healthWHO and the essential medicines conceptSection 2: Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practiceGovernance - an overviewRisk managementContinuing professional development and fitness to practiceAuditEthicsCommunication skills for the pharmacistRelationship with other members of the healthcare teamRecord keeping.Section 3: Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicinesAccess to medicines and prescribing - introductionThe prescribing process and evidence-based medicineFormulariesDrug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics Complementary/alternative medicinePrescribing for minor ailmentsInformation retrievalSection 4: Dispensing and related pharmaceutical practice activitiesThe prescriptionDispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)Pharmaceutical calculationsPackagingLabelling of dispensed medicinesProduction of sterile productsSolutionsSuspensionsEmulsionsExternal preparationsSuppositories and pessariesPowders and granulesOral unit dosage formsInhaled routeParenteral productsOphthalmic productsSpecialized servicesParenteral nutrition and dialysisRadiopharmacyStorage of medicines and waste disposalCommunication skills - role of the pharmacist in giving advice and informationSection 5: Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patientCollection and delivery servicesConcordanceMonitoring the patientServices for vulnerable patientsSubstance use and misuseAppendicesMedical abbreviationsLatin terms and abbreviationsSystems of weights and measuresPresentation skillsKey references and further readingIndex
