Pharmaceutical Practice

This comprehensive book 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, pharmacoeconomics, and medicines management. It features useful appendices on medical abbreviations, pharmaceutical Latin terms, weights and measures, and presentation skills.

ISBN 0443069069   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780443069062 (What's this?)   Pages 652 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Volumes 1 Imprint Churchill Livingstone   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780443072062 Publication date 21 Jul 2009   Height (mm) 189 Library of Congress 2008051274   Width (mm) 246 DEWEY 615.1068   Academic level Tertiary education

Section 1: Pharmacy in Society Chapter titles: Development and role of pharmacy in society: models of pharmacy practice within healthcare systems; Sociological aspects of patients and illness; Sociological aspects of treatment with drugs; Public health; Essential medicines. Section 2: Development and maintenance of quality pharmaceutical practice Chapter titles: Governance - an overview; Risk management; Fitness to practice and CPD; Audit; Ethics; Communication skills; Relationship with other members of the healthcare team; Record keeping. Section 3: Access to medicines a) prescribing Chapter titles: Introduction; The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine; Formularies; Pharmacoeconomics and drug evaluation; Complementary medicine; Routes of administration; Responding to symptoms; Information retrieval. Section 4: Access to medicines b) dispensing Chapter titles: Checking the prescription; Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice); Pharmaceutical calculations; Packaging; Labelling; Sterile production areas and sterility testing; Solutions; Suspensions; Emulsions; External preparations; Suppositories and pessaries; Powders and granules; Oral unit dosage forms; Inhaled route; Parenteral products; Eye products; Specialised services; TPN and Dialysis; Radiopharmacy; Storage of medicines and waste disposal; Communication skills (advice giving). Section 5: Pharmaceutical practice and the individual medicine-using patient Chapter titles: Collection and delivery services; Concordane; Monitoring the patient; Services for vulnerable patients; Services for drug misusers. Appendices 1. Medical abbreviations; 2. Latin terms and abbreviations; 3. Systems of weights and measures; 4. Presentation skills; 5. References.