Description

This book aims to equip pharmacists with the knowledge and skills required to discharge their clinical pharmacy practice responsibilities. The focus is on providing information about how clinical pharmacy is practiced rather than what they need to know about drugs and therapeutics. Accessible enough for beginning students and comprehensive enough for professional, the text supports mastery of the skills associated with clinical care in both Inpatient and Outpatients settings. Each chapter focuses on a specific set or critical concepts, including communication skills for effective patient counseling, techniques and components of patient and medication history interviews, interview documentation, and performance of medication reconciliations on medication lists. Pharmacy Practice is considered as retail store pharmacy where the primary focus is trade. Although the concept of pharmacy practice is well defined and appreciated and practiced in the western part of the world, it is a growing concept. Patient focused practice is slowly realizing with introduction of clinical pharmacy education. Unfortunately lack of trained staff, non availability of the text books to meet the academic needs of students studying pharmacy practice was a big challenge. This book is one of the only texts of its kind in that it has been designed exclusively for pharmacy students and new practitioners. Students and pharmacist s alike will take away the knowledge to identify drug-related problems and formulate plans for real-world solutions.