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Pharmacology for Pharmacy and the Health Sciences: A Patient-Centred Approach

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Pharmacology for Pharmacy and the Health Sciences: A Patient-Centred Approach

Author:   Michael Boarder ,  Phyllis Navti ,  David E. Newby
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9780199559824


Pages:   720
Publication Date:   25 March 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Overview

Healthcare delivery is changing across the world. Pharmacy practice is becoming more patient-centred, with both pharmacists and nurses playing a primary role in prescribing drugs in many healthcare settings. The challenge for pharmacy education is to ensure an appropriate understanding of how drugs work within the context of individual patient responses. Pharmacology for Pharmacy and the Health Sciences is specifically designed to meet this challenge. The book provides an understanding of drug action at the cellular and molecular level, which is interfaced seamlessly with an explanation of the clinical use of drugs to treat common clinical conditions. Taking a novel patient-centred approach, the book features a series of embedded workbooks, which develop clinical topics in the context of individual patients and their experience of illness, to relate the scientific basis of pharmacology to real-life pharmacy practice. The workbooks provide a highly structured student-directed educational environment in which the reader understands more and memorises less. They help the reader to interpret presenting symptoms, hospital clinical clerking and patient history notes, and understand the therapeutic strategy and clinical outcome, all within a simple student-friendly format. The patient-centred approach does not come at the expense of providing a sound scientific framework: each workbook is preceded by an explanation of the pathophysiology of the clinical conditions featured, and the pharmacological basis of the drugs used in each therapeutic area. Pharmacology for Pharmacy and Health Sciences is the perfect course companion for anyone needing to develop a solid understanding of pharmacology and its impact on pharmacy and clinical practice. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany Pharmacology for Pharmacy and Health Science features the following: For registered adopters: Figures from the book, available to download. PDF versions of all Workbooks appearing in the text. Suggested answers to questions posed within the Workbooks.

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Author:   Michael Boarder ,  Phyllis Navti ,  David E. Newby
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Width: 19.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 26.40cm
Weight:   1.654kg
ISBN:  

9780199559824


ISBN 10:   0199559821
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   25 March 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION ; 1. Drugs, patients, and this book ; 2. How do drugs work? An introduction ; 3. Pharmacokinetics ; SECTION 2. THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM ; 4. Haemostasis, thromboembolic disorders ; 5. Hypertension ; 6. Atherosclerosis & ischaemic heart disease ; 7. Arrhythmias & heart failure ; SECTION 3. INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNE DISEASE ; 8. Inflammation and the skin: dermatitis, acne, and psoriasis ; 9. Rheumatoid arthritis ; 10. Allergies and antihistamines: allergic rhinitis and urticaria ; 11. Respiratory disease - asthma and COPD ; SECTION 4. GASTROINTESTINAL AND ENDOCRINE DISORDERS ; 12. Upper gastrointestinal tract disorders ; 13. Disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract ; 14. Diabetes mellitus and obesity ; 15. The thyroid and contraception ; SECTION 5. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ; 16. Epilepsy ; 17. Degeneration in the brain: Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease ; 18. Schizophrenia ; 19. Depression and anxiety ; 20. Pain and its drug treatment ; SECTION 6. TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS AND CANCER MANAGEMENT ; 21. The treatment of infections ; 22. Cancer chemotherapy

Reviews

I have recently started reading this book and find it to be very useful, particulary with the workbooks that have been incorporated into the chapters. I have found this format to be very useful for revision purposes, and it integrates different areas of knowledge in a way that other pharmacology text books do not. The workbooks also provide a means of applying knowledge in a more clinical manner, which I find to be very relevant to hospital pharmacy practice. Jessica Lemon, MPharm level 6, School of Pharmacy, hertfordshire University


I have recently started reading this book and find it to be very useful, particulary with the workbooks that have been incorporated into the chapters. I have found this format to be very useful for revision purposes, and it integrates different areas of knowledge in a way that other pharmacology text books do not. The workbooks also provide a means of applying knowledge in a more clinical manner, which I find to be very relevant to hospital pharmacy practice. Jessica Lemon, MPharm level 6, School of Pharmacy, hertfordshire University


Author Information

<br>Michael Boarder is Professor of Pharmacology at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, and previously Head of Department and Director of the Cell Signalling Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences, DeMontfort University. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, and has sat on the editorial board of both the Journal of Neurochemistry and the British Journal of Pharmacology. <br>Phyllis Navti is Divisional Lead Prescribing Advisor at the Leicestershire County and Rutland Primary Care Trust NHS and a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the Leicester School of Pharmacy. <br>David Newby is a senior lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology in the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia.<br>

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