Modern Dispensing Pharmacy

Description

The Dispensing Pharmacy, a practical manual includes all the dosage forms i.e. Liquid, solid and semisolid dosage forms and pharmaceutical incompatibilities. Pharmaceutics mainly deals with the development, production and evaluation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. For this, apart from Pharmaceutics certain other disciplines like Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Engineering are also integrated. Knowledge of Physical Pharmacy facilitate the preformulation task while during formulation and production, the knowledge of pharmaceutics becomes critical Pharmaceutical Engineering helps largely in tackling industrial scale production. The clinical pharmacist definition has been eliminated; in its place, details regarding clinical pharmacist activities and roles have been incorporated into the unabridged definition of clinical pharmacy. Pharmacy Practice is the branch of pharmaceutical science where all experiments are made on the basis of basic research. In pharmacy practice manufacturing and trading of drugs are involved. These activities are performed with the help of planning, organizing, direction, coordination and control which are the branches of management and are essentially used in each pharmaceutical business organisation. Multidisciplinary health care teams are becoming an essential part of the modern health care system, which focuses on adaptable care that prioritizes the patient's best interests. In this model, the pharmacist works alongside other health professional to provide the best health care by offering expertise about the safe and effective use of medicines. Dispensing of medication remains an art and a most exacting science, which pharmacists are supposed to master. Obviously modern pharmacists have to cope with their changing role and this has been the focal theme in presenting this text on Modern Dispensing Pharmacy.