Pharmacy Practice

The sixth edition of PharmacyPractice brings the contents completely up to date, reflecting emerging new roles for pharmacists both within the traditional employment areas of hospital and community pharmacy, as well as other developing roles supporting the public health agenda, governance, risk management, prescribing and pharmaco-economics.

New to this edition

New editor on the team, Louise Cogan.

Many new contributors, comprising practising pharmacists, teachers of pharmacy, and pharmacists with joint appointments between hospital/community pharmacy and universities.

Now with companion e-book included on StudentConsult

New chapters on

    Consent

    History Taking/ Gathering Information

    Advice giving and the pharmacist as a Health Trainer

    Using calculations in pharmacy practice

    Continuing professional development and revalidation

    Intra and inter professional working, The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimization

Table of Contents:

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

Jennie Watson, BSc, PG ClinDip, PGCert (LTHE), FFRPS, MRPharmS, FHEA, Boots Teacher Practitioner, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK and Louise Siobhan Cogan, BSc, PG Dip, PGCert (LTHE), PG Cert (Research and Evaluation) MRPharmS, FHEA, Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK