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