Pharmaceutical Practice
5th Edition
Published on 10. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
570 pages
978-0-7020-5143-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Pharmacy students and practising pharmacists
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-5143-2 (9780702051432)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Jennie Watson | Louise Cogan
Pharmacy Practice
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08/2019
6th Edition
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Arthur J. Winfield | Judith Rees | Ian Smith
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Content
Section 1: Pharmacy practice and society
The role of pharmacy in healthcare
Models of pharmacy practice within healthcare systems
Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
Pharmacy and public health
WHO and the essential medicines concept
Section 2: Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practice
Governance - an overview
Risk management
Continuing professional development and fitness to practice
Audit
Ethics
Communication skills for the pharmacist
Relationship with other members of the healthcare team
Record keeping.
Section 3: Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicines
Access to medicines and prescribing - introduction
The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
Formularies
Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
Complementary/alternative medicine
Prescribing for minor ailments
Information retrieval
Section 4: Dispensing and related pharmaceutical practice activities
The prescription
Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
Pharmaceutical calculations
Packaging
Labelling of dispensed medicines
Production of sterile products
Solutions
Suspensions
Emulsions
External preparations
Suppositories and pessaries
Powders and granules
Oral unit dosage forms
Inhaled route
Parenteral products
Ophthalmic products
Specialized services
Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
Radiopharmacy
Storage of medicines and waste disposal
Communication skills - role of the pharmacist in giving advice and information
Section 5: Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patient
Collection and delivery services
Concordance
Monitoring the patient
Services for vulnerable patients
Substance use and misuse
Appendices
Medical abbreviations
Latin terms and abbreviations
Systems of weights and measures
Presentation skills
Key references and further reading
Index
The role of pharmacy in healthcare
Models of pharmacy practice within healthcare systems
Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
Pharmacy and public health
WHO and the essential medicines concept
Section 2: Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practice
Governance - an overview
Risk management
Continuing professional development and fitness to practice
Audit
Ethics
Communication skills for the pharmacist
Relationship with other members of the healthcare team
Record keeping.
Section 3: Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicines
Access to medicines and prescribing - introduction
The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
Formularies
Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
Complementary/alternative medicine
Prescribing for minor ailments
Information retrieval
Section 4: Dispensing and related pharmaceutical practice activities
The prescription
Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
Pharmaceutical calculations
Packaging
Labelling of dispensed medicines
Production of sterile products
Solutions
Suspensions
Emulsions
External preparations
Suppositories and pessaries
Powders and granules
Oral unit dosage forms
Inhaled route
Parenteral products
Ophthalmic products
Specialized services
Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
Radiopharmacy
Storage of medicines and waste disposal
Communication skills - role of the pharmacist in giving advice and information
Section 5: Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patient
Collection and delivery services
Concordance
Monitoring the patient
Services for vulnerable patients
Substance use and misuse
Appendices
Medical abbreviations
Latin terms and abbreviations
Systems of weights and measures
Presentation skills
Key references and further reading
Index