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Handbook
of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 14th Edition
Edited by Rosemary R. Berardi, June H. McDermott, Gail D. Newton, Michael A. Oszko, Nicholas G. Popovich, Carol J. Rollins, Leslie A. Shimp, and Karen J. Tietze
As more drugs move from prescription to nonprescription status, the need for a thorough reference for healthcare providers increases. Few references on self-care cover all the options available to the self-treating patient. Those that attempt to do so usually do not take an evidence-based approach to establishing the safety and effectiveness of self-care options for particular disorders. The 14th edition of the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs continues its interactive approach to teaching students how to assess a disorder and recommend self-care options based on clinical studies of safety and effectiveness, and on patient factors and preferences. The new edition also provides practitioners with quick access to OTC drug information, assessment techniques, treatment algorithms, and patient counseling information.
By using the interactive approach presented, students and pharmacists can further develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Featured are methods on how to choose the most appropriate treatment based on patient factors, preferences and available clinical studies of safety and effectiveness. This comprehensive textbook contains treatment algorithms and case studies, self-treatment therapeutic comparisons and product selection guidelines. In this edition, the chapter on complementary therapies-herbal remedies and other dietary supplements – has been expanded due to its increased role in self-care. An index listing major disorder topics, generic and trade names of nonprescription products, and dietary supplements is included. Written and reviewed by content experts, the Handbook provides authoritative guidance for pharmacy students on all aspects of the pharmacists role in self-care. It is also a resource for practicing pharmacists to use in guiding and caring for individuals who undertake self-treatment with nonprescription medications, complementary therapies, and/or non-drug measures.
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Drug Information Handbook, 12th Edition
Charles F. Lacy, Lora L. Armstrong, Morton P. Goldman, and Leonard L. Lance
The Drug Information Handbook allows immediate access to comprehensive data on clinical medication use. The 12th edition covers 4,900 U.S. and Canadian medications, and includes 1,350 monographs. Searching is easy with the concise, dictionary-like format, alphabetical listings and cross-references of brand and generic medications. The Handbook is also available for the PDA. Up to 34 key fields on information per drug monograph.
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Carol K. Taketomo, Jane Hurlburt Hodding, and Donna M. Kraus Portable and affordable, it presents in dictionary format cross-referenced brand and generic names, and 692 monographs with up to 33 fields of information in each monograph. Added to this edition are neonatal dosing, drug administration, and extemporaneous preparations. Brand names and dosage form fields have been updated. Drugs in Pregnancy, Antithrombotic Therapy in Children and Immunization Guidelines are among the six newly added appendices.
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ISBN: 1-59195-023-6; 2003; 1,418 pp; softbound
Supervision: A Pharmacy Perspective
Jeannette Y. Wick
Because of the sensitivity of pharmacy products and services, supervision and management involve unique complexities. With an entire chapter dedicated to patient safety, Supervision: A Pharmacy Perspective addresses the pharmacy supervisors foremost concern. Planning, controlling, directing, and staffing-the four key components of supervision-are also discussed and dissected. Contains real life case studies and examples, basic communication skills, ways to motivate employees and how to bring about change, workplace rules and expectations, reward, discipline, ways to handle complaints and grievances, and U.S. labor laws. Thorough in its discussion, this resource also examines licensure, credentialing, malpractice, documentation, and peer review.
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Communication Skills for Pharmacists: Building
Relationships, Improving Patient Care
Bruce A. Berger
What benefit does medication have when administered incorrectly? How effective is medication when patients do not understand its purpose or its side effects? Pave the way for positive treatment outcomes by establishing effective relationships with physicians and patients. Communication Skills for Pharmacists is intended to help provide better care for patients focusing on listening, empathy, dealing with angry patients, assertiveness, and conflict management. Learn how to appropriately choose responses to delicate questions, how to help patients cope with change, and how to effectively support or persuade a physician. The ultimate goal is finding the best solution for the patient. With this book, discover the best way to successfully meet that goal.
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Marketing for Pharmacists
David A. Holdford
With Marketing for Pharmacists, practitioners learn to use marketing to build their practices, develop and provide innovative services, and generate business. Designed to further the idea that pharmacists provide value and should receive compensation for professional services. Learn everything from the basic foundations of marketing to specific pricing guidelines. Pharmacists, technicians, and students can become more effective in meeting patient needs-and bring about necessary changes-through marketing.
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Managing the Patient-Centered Pharmacy
Edited by Harry P. Hagel, MS, and John P. Rovers, PharmD
Learn how to refocus systems-from developing new practice visions to adjusting infrastructure and managing finances. Addressing pharmacists in all practice settings, this guide targets the most important management topics for implementing or improving patient services. Every pharmacist can benefit from reading this compilation of advice, strategy, and resources that provide a process-oriented approach and existing programs examples.
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By Michael D. Hogue, PharmD Getting paid for patient care services is a problem that has perplexed the pharmacy profession for years. Learning to bill insurers properly is the key to receiving compensation. The Pharmacist's Guide to Compensation for Patient-Care Services provides answers to billing questions, guidelines for completing insurance claim forms, guidelines for becoming a provider, and an understanding of the billing process. It is designed to address the needs of pharmacy providers at all levels of billing expertise. Special billing requirements for home healthcare, long term care, and hospital practice are covered. The text is especially valuable for community practitioners dealing with the widest range of payment sources. |
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Frank Jaksch and Mark Roman Recent studies show that when pharmacists offer diabetes patient-management programs, patients use their drugs properly and lower the total cost of care. Pharmacists are in a key position to begin providing care to patients with diabetes and patients at risk for diabetes. This book gives pharmacists what they must have prior to implementing a service and explains, step-by-step, the process for setting up an ADA Recognized Practice. Pharmacists who have begun to offer those services can expand and improve the care they are already providing with this one-stop resource. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing 22 sample forms to assist in expediting the creation of a diabetes management service and avoid having to reinvent the wheel. Users can customize the sample forms to fit their practice needs. Among the forms are Sample Patient Consent Form, Initial Assessment & Checklist, Sample Letter to Physician, and Quality Assurance Checklist. |
ISBN: 1-58212-062-5; 2004; 113 pp; softbound with CD-ROM
Pagliaros' Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and Substances
of Abuse
Louis A. Pagliaro and Ann Marie Pagliaro
Pharmacists and physicians need to be aware of the abuse potential, signs and symptoms of intoxication, and current illicit use patterns for the drugs they are prescribing. Nurses, EMS personnel, and other allied health professionals need a comprehensive, easy to use resource that will enable them to retrieve pertinent information on drugs and substances of abuse quickly.
Pagliaros' Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and
Substances of Abuse provides health care professionals a timely,
authoritative, scholarly, referenced compilation and analysis of current
available data concerning the status, trends, and individual pharmacology
of drugs and substances of abuse in North America.
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Nutrition in Pharmacy Practice
Edited by Ira Wolinsky and Louis Williams
The field of nutrition has significant interaction and overlap with the practice of pharmacy. Patients often approach the pharmacist first for nutritional advice or information on dietary supplements. To meet their patients' needs, pharmacists must be knowledgeable about nutrition, weight control, diet and disease, potential food and drug interactions, and herbal medicines used as nutritional supplements.
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Edited by Louis A. Pagliaro and Ann Marie Pagliaro Problems in Pediatric Drug Therapy is the essential text for pediatric clinicians and students who are involved in promoting and maintaining the health of neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. Each chapter deals with a major, potentially problematic, area of pediatric drug therapy. Each chapter from the previous edition has been updated and two new chapters - "Pediatric Pharmacogenetics" and "Pediatric Antineoplastic Drug Therapy" - have been added. |
ISBN: 1-58212-001-3; 2002; 829 pp; hardbound
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L. Michael Posey Geared toward student pharmacists, this textbook presents the history, forces, trends and concepts that influence pharmacy in its present state-and provides a simple framework for the profession as a whole. Contains 11 chapters that span government regulation, career pathways, membership organizations, philosophical underpinnings, and ethics. Formerly published under the title Pharmacy Cadence, this revised and updated text gives student pharmacists an insider's familiarity with the full scope of the pharmacy profession. Also included is a special chapter on communications in pharmacy practice. |
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L. Michael Posey Contains the basic information needed to understand the responsibilities and knowledge covered in the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam. The 15 comprehensive chapters are organized into four sections, three of which correspond directly to the PTCB content outline. The Review is also a great resource for use with in-house training programs, certification prep courses, or technician training programs. |
ISBN: 1-58212-009-9; 2001; 195 pp; softbound
Diabetes Management
Services: A Pharmacists' Resource Guide
Pharmacy: An Introduction
to the Profession
APhA's Complete
Review for the Pharmacy Technician