Synopses & Reviews
This fully-revised, portable Second Edition provides pharmacy students with a unique reference source for their introductory clerkship and is the only clinical clerkship manual designed specifically for pharmacy students. This text serves two purposes: it eases the transition from classroom to experiential training (students learn what to expect from the patient care setting and what is expected from them); and it provides quick reference material needed for day-to-day clinical work. Features include: two appendices, covering medical abbreviations and terms/notations, and common anatomic terms; illustrated hints, questions and information on drugs, equipment, and procedures; and new chapters on Overview of Health Care Systems, Home Diagnostic Tests, Documentation of Pharmacy Practice, Over-the-Counter Products, Patient Counseling, Public Health Practices, and Approaches to Evaluating Drug-Related Problems.
Synopsis
Now available in both print and PDA format, this fully revised Second Edition provides pharmacy students with a unique reference source for their introductory clerkship and is the only clinical clerkship resource designed specifically for pharmacy students. Pharmacy practice Manual, Second Edition eases the transition from classroom to experiential training and provides quick reference material needed for day-to-day clinical work. Features include two appendices covering medical abbreviations; terms and notations, and common anatomic terms; hints, questions and information on drugs, equipment, and procedures, and new chapters on health care systems, documentation, OTC products, patient counseling, and evaluating drug-related problems.
Synopsis
Extensively revised and updated for its Third Edition, this pocket-sized manual is written for students to use during rotations in PharmD programs. It provides a unique reference source for the introductory clerkship and is the only clinical clerkship manual designed specifically for pharmacy students. This manual eases the transition from classroom to experiential training and provides quick reference material needed for day-to-day clinical work. It helps students move from dispensing medications to establishing relationships with patients, and improves the student's understanding of pharmacotherapeutics in a patient-centered setting. Numerous boxes, drawings, and tables help illustrate information about drugs, procedures, and equipment.
A companion website offers the fully searchable text.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Professionalism in Pharmacy
- Chapter 2. Professional Experiential Education: Why, How, and What to Expect
- Chapter 3. Providing Drug Information and Kate Farthing
- Chapter 4. Physical Examination
- Chapter 5. Interpretation of Clinical Laboratory Test Results
- Chapter 6. Diagnostic Procedures
- Chapter 7. Home Test Kits and Monitoring Devices
- Chapter 8. Drug Administration
- Chapter 9. Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy
- Chapter 10. Enteral Nutrition
- Chapter 11. Parenteral Nutrition
- Chapter 12. A Pharmacy Calculations Anthology
- Chapter 13. Clinical Pharmacokinetics
- Chapter 14. Clinical Drug Monitoring
- Chapter 15. Antibiotics, Antivirals, and Infection
- Chapter 16. Pain Management
- Chapter 17. Over-the-Counter Drug Therapy and Dietary Supplements/Complementary Care
- Chapter 18. Patient Consultation in the Cycle of Patient Care
- Chapter 19. Preventative Health: Vaccines and General Adult Health Screening
- Chapter 20. Patient Safety
- Chapter 21. The Law and the Clinical Practice of Pharmacy