Pharmacy Practice

• Section 1: The Patient

• Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness

Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines

Communication skills for pharmacists and their team

Consent

History Taking/ Gathering Information

Concordance

Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer

Section 2: The Medicine

Control of medicines

The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine

Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics

Formularies in pharmacy practice

Complementary and alternative medicines

Using calculations in pharmacy practice

Veterinary pharmacy

Section 3: The Medicine Formulation

Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)

Oral unit dosage forms

Packaging

Solutions

Suspensions

Emulsions

External preparations

Suppositories and pessaries

Powders and granules

Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product

Production of sterile products

Parenteral products

Opthalmic products

Inhaled products

Parenteral nutrition and dialysis

Radiopharmacy

Specialized services

Appliances

Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process

Clinical governance

Risk management

Standard operating procedures

Audit

Information retrieval in pharmacy practice

Control of health professionals and their staff

Continuing professional development and revalidation

Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare

The role of pharmacy in healthcare

Ethics - the theory

Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas

Public health

Structure and organization of pharmacy

Intra- and inter-professional working

Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond

The prescription

Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access

Routes of administration and dosage forms

Labelling of dispensed medicines

Monitoring the patient

The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation

Public health and pharmacy interventions

Substance use and misuse