This is an essential textbook for students throughout their course, providing a comprehensive account of 'pharmacy practice'. Subjects covered include 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.
- This is a core text for pharmacy practice and dispensing modules of the pharmacy curriculum
- Covers key exam material for essential review and test preparation
- Features a user-friendly design with clear headings, chapter summaries, helpful boxes, and key points
- New and revised chapters on :
- Essential medicines concept
- Pharmacy management
- Complementary and alternative medicines
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Presentation skills
- Major expansion of information on:
- Calculations
- Medicines information
- Drug administration by inhaled route
- Social and behavioural aspects of pharmacy
Arthur J. Winfield, BPharm, PhD, MRPharmS, Chairman, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait; and R. Michael E. Richards, OBE, BPharm, PhD, DSc, DPharmSc, DPharm, FRPharmS, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of Mahasarakham, Thailand