Pharmaceutical Care Practice: The Clinician's Guide, Second Edition

CHAPTER ONE: AN OVERVIEW OF PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PRACTICE

Professional Care Defined

Pharmaceutical Care as a Generalist Practice

The Language of Practice

The Practitioner and the Patient Form a Practice

The Pharmacotherapy Workup

The Patient Care Process

Chapter TWO: CLINICAL & ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PRACTICE

Introduction

Assurance Pharmaceutical Care Documentation System

The Patient Sample

Drug Therapy Problems Identified and Resolved

Level of Patient Complexity

Interventions Made in Care Plan Development

Patient Outcomes

The Economic Impact of the Practice

Summary

CHAPTER THREE: THE PRACTITIONERS RESPONSIBILITIES

Practive Responsibilities

The Practitioners Philosophy of Practice

The Responsibility to Care

The Values Involved in Caring for Patients<

The Standards of Professional Behavior

Summary

CHAPTER FOUR: THE PATIENTS ROLE

The Therapeutic Relationship Defined

Building the Therapeutic Relationship

The Impact of the Therapeutic Relationship

The Patients Rights and Responsibilities

Summary

CHAPTER FIVE: THE PATIENTS MEDICATION EXPERIENCE

The Patients Medication Exoerience Defined

Understanding the Patients Medication Experience

Summary

CHAPTER SIX: The Assessment

Purpose, Activities, and Responsibilities

Meeting the Patient

Eliciting Information from the Patient

The Pharmacotherapy Workup

Drug Therapy Problem Identification

Summarizing the Assessment

Documenting the Assessment

Summary

CHAPTER SEVEN: DRUG THERAPY PROBLEMS

Drug Therapy Problems: Terminology>h4>Categories and Common Causes of Drug Therapy Problems

Stating Drug Therapy Problems

Prioritizing Drug Therapy Problems

Patients with no Drug Therapy Problems

Documenting Drug Therapy Problems

Summary

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CARE PLAN

Purpose, Activities, and Responsibilities

Establishing Goals of Therapy

Interventions

Schedule and Plan for Follow-up Evaluations

Documenting the Care plan

Summary

CHAPTER NINE: FOLLOW-UP EVALUATION

Purpose, Activities and Responsibilities

Evaluating Effectivness of Drug Therapies

Evaluating the Safety of Drug Therapies

Determining the Clinical Outcome Status

Evaluation for New Drug Therapy Problems

Schedule for Continuous Follow-up Evaluations

Summary

CHAPTER TEN: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PRACTICE

Introduction

Issues of the Law

Professional Codes of Conduct

Common Ethical Considerations in Pharmaceutical Care Practice

Identifying Common Ethical Problems

Workup of an Ethical Problem

Summary

CHAPTER ELEVEN: ACQUIRING THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED TO PRACTICE

Becoming Familiar With What You Need to Know

Understanding the Important Repationships

Knowledge You Need About the Patient

Knowledge You Need About the Patients Medical Conditions

Knowledge You Need About the Patients Drug Therapies

Summary

CHAPTER TWELVE:ACQUIRING THE CLINICAL SKILLS YOU BEED TO PRACTICE

Introduction

Obtaining Clinical Information from the Patient

Communication Skills

Documentation in Practice

Learning to be Reflective in Practice

Summary

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE PHARMACOTHERAPY PATIENT CASE PRESENTATION

Purpose of the Patient Case Presnetation

Need for a Specific Format

You First Case Presentation

Assessment of the Patients Drug-related Needs

Drug Therapy Problem Identification

The Care Plan

Follow-up Evaluation

Summary of the Case

Common Problems in the Case Presnetation

Written Case Summaries

Example of a Pharmacotherapy Care Presentation

Summary

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ESTABLISHING A NEW PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PRACTICE

Introduction

Guidelines for Building a Patient Care Practice

Becoming Financially Viable

Summary

Appendix A - Standards of Practice for Pharmaceutical Care

APPENDIX B - Glossary

APPENDIX C - Pharmacotherapy Workup Notes

APPENDIX D - Pharmacotherapy Patient Case Presentation