Pharmaceutical Practice International Edition

Key Features

• Each chapter begins with Study Point and ends with Key Points to reinforce learning.
• Appendices include medical abbreviations, Latin terms and abbreviations, systems of weights and measurements, presentation skills and key references.
• Self-assessment questions for more complex areas of pharmaceutical practice.
• New chapters on control of medicines; control of health professionals and their staff; ethics in practice; Standard Operating Procedures; structure and organisation of pharmacy; veterinary pharmacy; appliances; public health, and pharmacy interventions.
• New editor on the team, Jennie Watson.
• Many new contributors, comprising practising pharmacists, teachers of pharmacy, and pharmacists with joint appointments between hospital/community pharmacy and universities.

Table of contents

Section 1: Pharmacy practice and society

• The role of pharmacy in healthcare
• Models of pharmacy practice within healthcare systems
• Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
• Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
• Pharmacy and public health
• WHO and the essential medicines concept

Section 2: Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practice

• Governance - an overview
• Risk management
• Continuing professional development and fitness to practice
• Audit
• Ethics
• Communication skills for the pharmacist
• Relationship with other members of the healthcare team
• Record keeping.

Section 3: Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicines

• Access to medicines and prescribing - introduction
• The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
• Formularies
• Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
• Complementary/alternative medicine
• Prescribing for minor ailments
• Information retrieval

Section 4: Dispensing and related pharmaceutical practice activities

• The prescription
• Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
• Pharmaceutical calculations
• Packaging
• Labelling of dispensed medicines
• Production of sterile products
• Solutions
• Suspensions
• Emulsions
• External preparations
• Suppositories and pessaries
• Powders and granules
• Oral unit dosage forms
• Inhaled route
• Parenteral products
• Ophthalmic products
• Specialized services
• Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
• Radiopharmacy
• Storage of medicines and waste disposal
• Communication skills - role of the pharmacist in giving advice and information
• Section 5: Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patient
• Collection and delivery services
• Concordance
• Monitoring the patient
• Services for vulnerable patients
• Substance use and misuse

Appendices

• Medical abbreviations
• Latin terms and abbreviations
• Systems of weights and measures
• Presentation skills
• Key references and further reading