Pharmacy Practice, 6th Edition

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.

• 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 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

1. Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
2. Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
3. Communication skills for pharmacists and their team
4. Consent
5. History Taking/ Gathering Information
6. Concordance
7. Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer

Section 2: The Medicine

8. Control of medicines
9. The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
10. Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
11. Formularies in pharmacy practice
12. Complementary and alternative medicines
13. Using calculations in pharmacy practice
14. Veterinary pharmacy

Section 3: The Medicine Formulation

15. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
16. Oral unit dosage forms
17. Packaging
18. Solutions
19. Suspensions
20. Emulsions
21. External preparations
22. Suppositories and pessaries
23. Powders and granules

Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product

24. Production of sterile products
25. Parenteral products
26. Opthalmic products
27. Inhaled products
28. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
29. Radiopharmacy
30. Specialized services
31. Appliances

Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process

32. Clinical governance
33. Risk management
34. Standard operating procedures
35. Audit
36. Information retrieval in pharmacy practice
37. Control of health professionals and their staff
38. Continuing professional development and revalidation

Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare

39. The role of pharmacy in healthcare
40. Ethics - the theory
41. Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas
42. Public health
43. Structure and organization of pharmacy
44. Intra- and inter-professional working

Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond

45. The prescription
46. Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access
47. Routes of administration and dosage forms
48. Labelling of dispensed medicines
49. Monitoring the patient
50. The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation
51. Public health and pharmacy interventions
52. Substance use and misuse