Pharmaceutical Practice - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 044307206X ISBN 13: 9780443072062

Casa editrice: Churchill Livingstone, 2003

Riassunto

This comprehensive book covers a wide range of subjects relevant to pharmacy practice, including communication skills, managing a business, quality assurance, dispensing, calculations, packaging, storage and labeling of medicines, sterilization, prescriptions, hospital-based services, techniques and treatments, adverse drug reactions, pharmacoeconomics, and medicines management. Features useful appendices on medical abbreviations, pharmaceutical Latin terms, weights and measures, and presentation skills.

• This is a core text for pharmacy practice and dispensing modules of the pharmacy curriculum
• Covers key exam material for essential review and test preparation
• Features a user-friendly design with clear headings, chapter summaries, helpful boxes, and key points

• Several totally new chapters have been added on the following topics:
• the 'essential medicines concept',
• pharmacy management,
• complementary and alternative medicines,
• pharmacoeconomics, and
• presentation skills.
• There has been major expansion of many chapters, including
• social and behavioural aspects of pharmacy,
• calculations,
• medicines information, and
• drug administration by the inhaled route.
• All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated.

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Contenuti

PART 1 Pharmacy in Society
1. The contribution of pharmacy to today's health care provision
2. Social and behavioural aspects of pharmacy
3. Communication skills for the pharmacist
4. WHO and Essential Medicines Concept
5. Pharmacy Management
PART 2 Principles of Pharmacy Practice
6. The principles and applications of quality assurance
7. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
8. Pharmaceutical calculations
9. Packaging
10. Storage and stability of medicines
11. Labelling of dispensed medicines
12. Principles and methods of sterilization
13. Sterile Production Areas
14. Sterility testing
PART 3 Pharmaceutical Products
15. The Prescription
16. Routes of administration and dosage forms
17. Solutions
18. Suspensions
19. Emulsions
20. External preparations
21. Suppositories and pessaries
22. Powders and granules
23. Oral unit dosage forms
24. Inhaled route
25. Parenteral products
26. Ophthalmic products
27. Specialized services
28. Parenteral Nutrition and Dialysis
29. Wound management, stoma and incontinence products
30. Medical gases
PART 4 Using Pharmaceutical Skills in Caring for Patients
31. Clinical pharmacy practice
32. Adverse drug reactions
33. Medicines Information
34. The evaluation of medicines
35. Pharmacoeconomics
36. Formularies and Guidelines
37. Responding to symptoms
38. Counselling
39. Health promotion
40. Concordance and Compliance
41. Complementary/Alternative medicine
42. Substance use and misuse
43. Clinical governance
Key references by chapter
PART 5 Appendices
Appendix 1: Current UK pharmaceutical legislation
Appendix 2: National Health Service dispensing
Appendix 3: Medical Abbreviations
Appendix 4: Latin terms and abbreviations
Appendix 5: Systems of weights and measures
Appendix 6: Presentation skills
Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Churchill Livingstone
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 044307206X
• ISBN 13: 9780443072062
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 592
• Redattore: Winfield A. J. Ph.D., Richards R. Michael E.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile