This book presents pharmacy practice within the content of a social and real-life healthcare setting. It will help to prepare students for what they will experience when they start practising and will also apply to practitioners in their day-to-day work.
‘Pharmacy practice’ may be misinterpreted by many as being a subject relevant only to those in the pharmacy professions. This is a great misconception as the principles for the use of medicines are relevant and applicable to any healthcare professionals, whatever their roles and responsibilities in the processes of research, manufacture, regulation, supply, prescribing, dispensing, administration and use of medicines.
The concepts and skills of clinical pharmacy practice are relevant to all pharmacists as members of healthcare teams concerned with the effective, safe and economic use of medicines. Pharmacists working in hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy, drug or medicines information, clinical research, government and non-government organizations, teaching and research will all find this book of relevance to their work. The book is a recommended text for the B Pharm, Pharmacy Practice and Pharm D programmes.
