Pharmacy Practice

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

Section 1: The Patient Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines Communication skills for pharmacists and their team Consent History Taking/ Gathering Information Concordance Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer Section 2: The Medicine Control of medicines The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics Formularies in pharmacy practice Complementary and alternative medicines Using calculations in pharmacy practice Veterinary pharmacy Section 3: The Medicine Formulation Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice) Oral unit dosage forms Packaging Solutions Suspensions Emulsions External preparations Suppositories and pessaries Powders and granules Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product Production of sterile products Parenteral products Opthalmic products Inhaled products Parenteral nutrition and dialysis Radiopharmacy Specialized services Appliances Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process Clinical governance Risk management Standard operating procedures Audit Information retrieval in pharmacy practice Control of health professionals and their staff Continuing professional development and revalidation Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare The role of pharmacy in healthcare Ethics - the theory Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas Public health Structure and organization of pharmacy Intra- and inter-professional working Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond The prescription Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access Routes of administration and dosage forms Labelling of dispensed medicines Monitoring the patient The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation Public health and pharmacy interventions Substance use and misuse