Pharmacy Practice

• Section 1: The Patient Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illnessSocio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicinesCommunication skills for pharmacists and their teamConsentHistory Taking/ Gathering InformationConcordanceAdvice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainerSection 2: The MedicineControl of medicinesThe prescribing process and evidence-based medicineDrug evaluation and pharmacoeconomicsFormularies in pharmacy practiceComplementary and alternative medicinesUsing calculations in pharmacy practiceVeterinary pharmacySection 3: The Medicine FormulationDispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)Oral unit dosage formsPackagingSolutionsSuspensionsEmulsionsExternal preparationsSuppositories and pessariesPowders and granulesSection 4: The Specialized Pharmacy ProductProduction of sterile productsParenteral productsOpthalmic productsInhaled productsParenteral nutrition and dialysisRadiopharmacySpecialized servicesAppliancesSection 5: The Pharmacy Safety ProcessClinical governanceRisk managementStandard operating proceduresAuditInformation retrieval in pharmacy practice Control of health professionals and their staffContinuing professional development and revalidationSection 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcareThe role of pharmacy in healthcareEthics - the theoryEthics in practice and ethical dilemmasPublic healthStructure and organization of pharmacyIntra- and inter-professional workingSection 7: The patient, their medicine and beyondThe prescriptionPatient charges of medicines and their impact on accessRoutes of administration and dosage formsLabelling of dispensed medicinesMonitoring the patientThe role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisationPublic health and pharmacy interventionsSubstance 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!'