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

Cipolle, Robert; Strand, Linda; Morley, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071362592 ISBN 13: 9780071362597

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2004

Synopsis

This book is revised, expanded, and updated. Meet the challenges of developing a new patient-care pharmacy practice with the most practical and authoritative resource available. Written by leaders in the development of the pharmaceutical care practice model, "Pharmaceutical Care Practice" explains the pharmacist's new role in working with patients to develop drug therapy strategies that improve patients' quality of life by ensuring the best possible therapeutic outcomes. Whether you are a student or a practicing pharmacist seeking to improve your patient-care skills, use this book for the step-by-step implementation strategies needed to practice in this patient-centered environment: patient assessment, care plan development, follow-up evaluations, documentation, and reimbursement.This practical guide to providing pharmaceutical care helps readers: understand their increased role in drug therapy assessment and delivery; learn an effective process for applying your pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to identify and prevent or resolve drug therapy problems; establish a strong therapeutic relationship with your patients; optimize your patient's well-being by achieving therapeutic goals; improve your follow-up evaluation abilities; document your pharmaceutical care and obtain reimbursement; and, work collaboratively with other patient care providers. This new edition of "Pharmaceutical Care Practice" gives you the necessary skills to master the new demands of pharmacy practice with confidence. The new and expanded features in this edition include: patient's medication experience; the pharmacotherapy workup; standards of care; ethical considerations; reimbursement; documentation; and, new practice-based data.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Cipolle is a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy graduate programs in Hospital Pharmacy and Social and Administrative Pharmacy. He has developed educational programs for pharmacy students, residents, fellows and graduate students in therapeutic drug monitoring, specialty areas of pharmacotherapy, and pharmaceutical care. Dr. Cipolle has been instrumental in the efforts to implement problem-based education in the pharmacy curricula. Dr. Cipolle has also been a primary investigator on a 3 year $1 million research project entitled: The Implementation and Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Care in the Community Practice Setting. He currently teaches the practice of pharmaceutical care in the professional curriculum, trains practicing pharmacists, and conducts research in the community practice setting. Presently, Dr. Cipolle serves as the Director of the Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care at the University of Minnesota which serves as a research and program development unit devoted to the advancement of pharmaceutical care.

From the Back Cover

Revised, Expanded, and Updated

Meet the challenges of developing a new patient-care pharmacy practice with the most practical and authoritative resource available. Written by leaders in the development of the pharmaceutical care practice model, PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PRACTICE explains the pharmacist's new role in working with patients to develop drug therapy strategies that improve patients' quality of life by ensuring the best possible therapeutic outcomes.

Whether you are a student or a practicing pharmacist seeking to improve your patient-care skills, use this book for the step-by-step implementation strategies needed to practice in this patient-centered environment: patient assessment, care plan development, follow-up evaluations, documentation, and reimbursement. This practical guide to providing pharmaceutical care helps readers

*Understand your increased role in drug therapy assessment and delivery
*Learn an effective process for applying your pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to identify and prevent or resolve drug therapy problems
*Establish a strong therapeutic relationship with your patients
*Optimize your patient's well-being by achieving therapeutic goals
*Improve your follow-up evaluation abilities
*Document your pharmaceutical care and obtain reimbursement
*Work collaboratively with other patient care providers

This new edition of PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PRACTICE gives you the necessary skills to master the new demands of pharmacy practice with confidence.

NEW AND EXPANDED IN THIS EDITION
*Patient s Medication Experience
*The Pharmacotherapy Workup
*Standards of Care
*Ethical Considerations
*Reimbursement
*Documentation
*New Practice-based Data

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071362592
• ISBN 13: 9780071362597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416