Winfield A.J., Rees J.A., Smith I. Pharmaceutical Practice

Churchill Livingstone, 2009. — 665 p.Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
About this book
Pharmacy practice and society
The role of pharmacy in health care
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
Types of patient charges for medicines and their impact
WHO and the essential medicines concept
Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practice
Clinical governance – an overview
Risk management
Continuing professional development and fi tness to practise
Audit
Ethics
Communication skills for the pharmacist
Relationship with other members of the healthcare team
Record keeping
Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicines
Access to medicines and prescribing – introduction
The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
Complementary/alternative medicine
Routes of administration and dosage forms
Prescribing for minor ailments
Information retrieval
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
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
Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patient
Collection and delivery services
Concordance
Monitoring the patient
Services for vulnerable patients
Substance use and misuse
Appendix 1: Medical abbreviations
Appendix 2: Latin terms and abbreviations
Appendix 3: Systems of weights and measures
Appendix 4: Presentation skills
Appendix 5: Key references and further reading
Index