Pharmacy practice

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (May 2008)

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2008)

Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:

• Disease-state management
• Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommendation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjustments, etc.)
• Professional development.
• Pharmaceutical care
• Extemporaneous pharmaceutical compounding.
• Communication skills
• Health psychology.
• Patient care
• Drug abuse prevention
• Prevention of drug interactions, including drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions
• Prevention (or minimization) of adverse events
• Incompatibility
• Drug discovery and evaluation
• Community Pharmacy
• Detect pharmacotherapy-related problems, such as:
  • The patient is taking a drug which he/she does not need.
  • The patient is taking a drug for a specific disease, other than one afflicting the patient.
  • The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.
  • The patient is taking a drug underdose.
  • The patient is taking a drug overdose.
  • The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.
  • The patient is suffering from a drug-drug interaction, drug-food interaction, drug-ethanol interaction, or any other interaction.