Pharmacy Practice

• Section 1: The Patient1. Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness2. Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines3. Communication skills for pharmacists and their team4. Consent5. History Taking/ Gathering Information6. Concordance7. Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainerSection 2: The Medicine8. Control of medicines9. The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine10. Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics11. Formularies in pharmacy practice12. Complementary and alternative medicines13. Using calculations in pharmacy practice14. Veterinary pharmacySection 3: The Medicine Formulation15. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)16. Oral unit dosage forms17. Packaging18. Solutions19. Suspensions20. Emulsions21. External preparations22. Suppositories and pessaries23. Powders and granulesSection 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product24. Production of sterile products25. Parenteral products26. Opthalmic products27. Inhaled products28. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis29. Radiopharmacy30. Specialized services31. AppliancesSection 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process32. Clinical governance33. Risk management34. Standard operating procedures35. Audit36. Information retrieval in pharmacy practice37. Control of health professionals and their staff38. Continuing professional development and revalidationSection 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare39. The role of pharmacy in healthcare40. Ethics - the theory41. Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas42. Public health43. Structure and organization of pharmacy44. Intra- and inter-professional workingSection 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond45. The prescription46. Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access47. Routes of administration and dosage forms48. Labelling of dispensed medicines49. Monitoring the patient50. The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation51. Public health and pharmacy interventions52. Substance use and misuse

From 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!’