Pharmaceutical Practice
4th Edition
Published on 21. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
652 pages
978-0-443-06906-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Pharmacy students and practising pharmacists
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 246 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-443-06906-2 (9780443069062)
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Ian Smith | Jennie Watson
Pharmaceutical Practice
Book
01/2014
5th Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€89.32
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Previous edition
Arthur J. Winfield | R. Michael E. Richards
Pharmaceutical Practice
Book
08/2003
3rd Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€64.36
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Content
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.