Pharmaceutical Practice

Pharmacists have a fundamental professional duty to provide the highest standards of pharmaceutical care for patients and clients. Patient interaction is an expanding role for pharmacists, whether in hospital or community. This new edition of Pharmaceutical Practice provides the core knowledge and skills pharmacy students and practitioners need to allow them to take on this key responsibility. It covers the important areas of interaction and communication, teamwork, and cost-effective management, as well as core scientific information on pharmaceutical products and appliances - everything from prescriptions and routes of administration to intravenous additives, parenteral nutrition, and dialysis. 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. And all other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. Throughout the book, the Editors' aim - for this edition as for the last - remains constant: to invite chapter authors who are experts in their fields, and to oversee the entire book to make it a coherent and comprehensive whole, thereby providing a sound knowledge base for all aspects of good pharmacy practice. Book jacket.Winfield, Arthur J. is the author of 'Pharmaceutical Practice', published 2003 under ISBN 9780443072055 and ISBN 0443072051.