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.
Key Features
- Each chapter begins with Study Points and ends with Key Points to reinforce learning.
- Appendices include medical abbreviations, Latin terms and abbreviations, systems of weights and measurements and presentation skills.
- Some chapters also carry self-assessment questions for more complex areas of pharmaceutical practice.
New Features
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
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
- 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
- Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
- Oral unit dosage forms
- Packaging
- Solutions
- Suspensions
- Emulsions
- External preparations
- Suppositories and pessaries
- Powders and granules
- Production of sterile products
- Parenteral products
- Opthalmic products
- Inhaled products
- Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
- Radiopharmacy
- Specialized services
- Appliances
- 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
- 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
- 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
Section 2: The Medicine
Section 3: The Medicine Formulation
Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product
Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process
Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare
Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond
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!’
An excellent resource in pharmacology suitable for physiotherapy studies; easy to read and highly recommendable to all students, educators and academics.
Digital copy in this case - I found this book to be a really useful guide to the field for students starting at undergraduate for MPharm or even for PhD or masters students. I also intend to suggest this book to post-graduate masters students as applicable to everyday practice. Statistical information is presented very clearly and breaks down complex qualitative and quantitative methods into digestible and easy to read format. Very good.