cover image - Pharmacy Practice, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780702074301
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 09-26-2019
Page Count: 460
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $78.99

Pharmacy Practice, 6th Edition

by Jennie Watson, BSc (Hons), PG ClinDip, PGCert (LTHE), FFRPS, MRPharmS, FHEA and Louise Cogan, BSc (Hons), PG Dip, PGCert (LTHE), PG Cert (Research and Evaluation) MRPharmS, FHEA

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cover image - Pharmacy Practice, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9780702074301
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 09-26-2019
Page Count: 460
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $78.99
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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
    1. Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
    2. Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
    3. Communication skills for pharmacists and their team
    4. Consent
    5. History Taking/ Gathering Information
    6. Concordance
    7. Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer

    Section 2: The Medicine
    8. Control of medicines
    9. The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
    10. Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
    11. Formularies in pharmacy practice
    12. Complementary and alternative medicines
    13. Using calculations in pharmacy practice
    14. Veterinary pharmacy

    Section 3: The Medicine Formulation
    15. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
    16. Oral unit dosage forms
    17. Packaging
    18. Solutions
    19. Suspensions
    20. Emulsions
    21. External preparations
    22. Suppositories and pessaries
    23. Powders and granules

    Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product
    24. Production of sterile products
    25. Parenteral products
    26. Opthalmic products
    27. Inhaled products
    28. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
    29. Radiopharmacy
    30. Specialized services
    31. Appliances

    Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process
    32. Clinical governance
    33. Risk management
    34. Standard operating procedures
    35. Audit
    36. Information retrieval in pharmacy practice
    37. Control of health professionals and their staff
    38. Continuing professional development and revalidation

    Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare
    39. The role of pharmacy in healthcare
    40. Ethics – the theory
    41. Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas
    42. Public health
    43. Structure and organization of pharmacy
    44. Intra- and inter-professional working

    Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond
    45. The prescription
    46. Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access
    47. Routes of administration and dosage forms
    48. Labelling of dispensed medicines
    49. Monitoring the patient
    50. The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation
    51. Public health and pharmacy interventions
    52. Substance use and misuse
  • Jennie Watson, BSc (Hons), PG ClinDip, PGCert (LTHE), FFRPS, MRPharmS, FHEA, Boots Teacher Practitioner, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK and Louise Cogan, BSc (Hons), PG Dip, PGCert (LTHE), PG Cert (Research and Evaluation) MRPharmS, FHEA, Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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