Pharmaceutical Care Practice 3E

Pages: 697,
Specialty: Pharmacy,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Publication Year: 2012,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 165x242x35mm

"Pharmaceutical Care Practice, 3/e" provides the basic information necessary to establish, support, deliver, and maintain medication management services. This trusted text explains how a practitioner delivers pharmaceutical care services and provides a vision of how these services fit into the evolving healthcare structure. Whether you are a student or a practicing pharmacist seeking to improve your patient-care skills, "Pharmaceutical Care Practice, 3/e" provides the step-by-step implementation strategies necessary to practice in this patient-centered environment. This practical guide to providing pharmaceutical care helps you to: understand your growing role in drug therapy assessment and delivery; learn an effective process for applying your pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to identify and prevent or resolve drug therapy problems; establish a strong therapeutic relationship with your patients; optimize your patients' well-being by achieving therapeutic goals; improve your follow-up evaluation abilities; document your pharmaceutical care and obtain reimbursement; and, work collaboratively with other patient care providers.The patient-centered approach advocated by the authors, combined with an orderly, logical, rational decision-making process assessing the indication, effectiveness, safety, and convenience of all patient drug therapies will have a measurable positive impact on the outcomes of drug therapy.show more