About the Book: A Comprehensive New Text for Clinical Pharmacists Fundamental Skiffs for Patient Care in Pharmacy Practice is a pragmatic, student-oriented text ideally suited for introductory and advanced pharmacy practice courses. Accessible enough for beginning students and comprehensive enough for professional, the text supports mastery of the skills associated with clinical care in both Inpatient and outpatients settings. Each chapter focuses on a specific set or critical concepts, including communication skills for effective patient counseling, techniques and components of patient and medication history interviews, interview documentation, and performance of medication reconciliations on medication lists. Practical examples drawn from common clinical situations contextualize chapter Information and enable students to easily transition classroom learning into the workplace. Take-home points, chapter review questions, and tips for success reinforce central skill s and ideas. Fundamental Skiffs for Patient Core in Pharmacy Practice is one of the only texts of its kind in that it has been designed exclusively for pharmacy students and new practitioners. Students and pharmacist s alike will take away the knowledge to identify drug-related problems and formulate plans for real-world solutions.
Key Features: - How-to's, case studies, and real-world examples that contextualize concepts and solidify knowledge
- Take-home points at the end of each chapter
- A stepwise approach to performing medication reconciliation
- Tips on navigating medical records. including information on electronic medical records
- A comprehensive overview of interview skills. medication histories, and patient counseling
- The basics and highlights of medication therapy management
- Tips for counseling special patient population, including dying, pediatric, geriatric, and angry patients
- Pharmacy perspectives on writing SOAP notes and clinical notes
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About the Authors:
Colleen Doherty Lauster, PharmD, BCPS, CDE-Clinical Pharmacy
Specialist, Ambulatory Care, Beaumont Hospital
Colleen
Doherty Lauster, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, has previously served at the Assistant
Professor level at both Chicago State University College of Pharmacy and the
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Additionally, Dr. Lauster was an
Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center and, prior to this position, she served as a clinical Specialist in the
area of Adult Internal Medicine for several years at William Beaumont Hospital
in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Lauster received both her Bachelor of Science in
Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy from Wayne State University in Detroit,
Michigan. After receiving her degrees, she completed a pharmacy practice
residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an ambulatory care
specialty residency at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Currently, Dr. Lauster is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Ambulatory Care
Department at Beaumont Hospital.
Sneha Baxi Srivastava, PharmD, BCACP- Assistant Professor, Chicago State University
College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois
Sneha
Baxi Srivastava, PharmD, BCACP, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
at Chicago State University College of Pharmacy. Dr. Srivastava received her
Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2004 from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at
Rutgers University. She also completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency and then
an Ambulatory Care Specialty Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy
in Storrs, CT from 2006-2008. Dr. Srivastava’s clinical and research interests
include diabetes, hypertension, patient education and outreach, medication
adherence, health psychology, and the scholarship of teaching. |
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