Overview
Main description
The book every pharmacy student must own!
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a one-of-a-kind roadmap for excelling in pharmacy practice courses. A combination calculations, kinetics, drug information, medical terminology, and laboratory data book all in one, the Guide helps you organize case information, improve problem-solving skills, learn terminology, and impress faculty during rounds.
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is presented in three sections that span the entire pharmacy curriculum:
- Systems and Expectations covering ethics, communication, monitoring drug therapy, and regulatory agencies
- Patient Care Tool Box covering medical terminology, pharmacokinetics, laboratory data, and physical assessment
- Topics in Pharmacy Practice covering Drug Information and Drug Literature Evaluation, Community/Ambulatory Care, Institutional Pharmacy Practice, Public Health, Reducing Health Disparities Through Domestic and Global Outreach to the Undeserved
Valuable for both introductory and advanced practice course, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a book you will turn to throughout your entire pharmacy education.
Table of contents
SECTION 1: Systems and Expectations
Chapter 1 First Practice Course Expectations
Chapter 2 Ethics in Pharmacy Practice
Chapter 3 Pharmacy as a Community-Based Profession
Chapter 4 Communication: An Overview
Chapter 5 Rounding, Documentation, and Patient Education
Chapter 6 Monitoring Drug Therapy
Chapter 7 Regulatory Agencies with Pharmacy Oversight and Legal Requirements for Filling a Prescription
SECTION: 2 Patient Care Tool Box
Chapter 8 A Brief Look at the Construction of Medical Terminology and Common Definitions of Words That are Part of the Pharmacy Vernacular
Chapter 9 Pharmacy Calculations
Chapter 10 Physical Assessment Skills
Chapter 11 Interpretation of Clinical Laboratory Data
Chapter 12 Designing Patient Treatment Plans: PharmacokineticFoundations
SECTION 3: Topics in Pharmacy Practice
Chapter 13 Drug Information and Drug Literature Evaluation
Chapter 14 Community/Ambulatory Care
Chapter 15 Institutional Pharmacy Practice
Chapter 16 Managed Care
Chapter 17 Public Health
Chapter 18 Taking it to the Streets: Reducing Health Disparities Through Domestic and Global Outreach to the Underserved
Author comments
Ruth E. Nemire, PharmD, is a Professor at Touro College in the College of Pharmacy, in Harlem, New York.
Karen L. Kier, PhD, MSc, RPh, is a Professor at Ohio Northern University in the College of Pharmacy in Ada, Ohio.
