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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFrom customer reviews of the previous edition: 'A great book. Everything is well organised and easy to understand. Covers all topics an undergraduate pharmacy student would need . useful for a practising pharmacist too.' 'This is an excellent introduction to pharmacy practice. It is an excellent read. Very well worth buying if you are a pharmacist or chemist.' 'I'm a final year medical student and found this great for all those learning outcomes that are really difficult to find. Things like details on the yellow card scheme and MHRA that I'd previously spent hours searching for - a concise, clear explanation of can be found here. There are also useful things like consent, capacity, health-behaviour models, prescription writing, controlled drugs and homeopathy information . mops up the learning outcomes that most other books don't cover. I've used it most for the practise drugs calculations as we have formatives on these and end of year OSCEs too!'
Table of ContentsSection 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
