The Best Pharmacist

Pharmacists often don't feel like they're ready upon graduation. Along with helping you handle insurance issues, prevent misfills, deal with the workload, and take care of yourself and your license, this book helps pharmacists build great relationships with their patients and their teams. Graduating from the University of Florida with his PharmD, Dr. Richard Waithe now has seven years of community pharmacy experience including Pharmacy Manager of a Target, CVS, and Publix Pharmacy. In his book, First Time Pharmacist, Dr. Waithe shares his best practices, keys to success, and biggest lessons he's learned to better prepare you to be the pharmacist you always hoped you'd be.

This book is based on the life of a pharmacist as she struggles with alcoholism, anorexia nervosa with subsequent kidney failure, drug addiction, jail, rehab and recovery, and ovarian cancer. It is a remarkable story of redemption through the 12 Steps of Recovery . It chronicles the steps this pharmacist took to produce a complete personality change resulting in her sobriety. Despite a dysfunctional upbringing, drug overdoses, a reckless lifestyle, and ovarain cancer, today, because of the 12 Step Program, she is happy, joyous, free

Pharmacy is the nation's third largest health profession, with nearly 200,000 licensed pharmacists in the United States and 125,000 practicing in community pharmacies. It is in community settings where pharmaceutical care will be judged, accepted, and ultimately paid for. Pharmaceutical Care: Insights from Community Pharmacists introduces the conce

If you want to learn how to become a pharmacist, then get this “Pharmacist 101” guide today! In Pharmacist 101, you will learn these top lessons from a real pharmacist. • Evaluation of the real pharmacy lifestyle • Broken down into sections for before pharmacy school, during pharmacy school, during rotations, and after graduation • Additional chapters on finance and extra reading suggestions • Expanded lesson on surprising areas within the field of pharmacy that pharmacists can be found o Open discussion of benefits and struggles within each subcategory o A day in the life of a hospital pharmacist • Step-by-step description of application process for getting into pharmacy school • Step-by-step description of process for taking pharmacy board exams and obtaining licensure after graduation • The real value of experience before and during pharmacy school • General guidelines for conducting yourself on rotations • Tips to establish solid professional relationships • Discussion of critical classes within the pharmacy curriculum • Considerations for elective courses in pharmacy school • Information about continuing education requirements after graduation • How to handle and prevent mistakes within healthcare • Balancing life and professional obligations • Writing and updating your Curriculum Vitae • Resources for determining your school of choice • Suggestions for dual degree programs • How to establish a specialty, if you so choose • Brief overview of sciences required for entry into pharmacy school • Differences between residencies and fellowships and when each may be applicable o Application and information for success in each • Establishing connections within the field • Conducting yourself professionally Read “Pharmacist 101” today and all the best in your journey towards becoming a pharmacist! About the Expert Ann Klemz, PharmD, is a hospital pharmacist from Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus in 2012. She has worked in the field of pharmacy as a technician, intern, and pharmacist for over twenty years. She’s worked in retail, hospital, minor clinical roles, home infusion, and hospice. Her perspective is inclusive and unique. Her strengths include Harmony, Adaptability, Developer, Empathy, and Positivity, with a punch of Activator and Intellection for good measure. When she’s not at work, she can be found drinking coffee, cross-stitching, and mitigating the craziness of her three-child household with her loving partner, Tim. HowExpert.com publishes quick ‘how to’ guides in all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

With humor and friendliness, leading pharmacist Lisa Chavis has compiled a home health reference that every family must have. Her objective is to provide consumers with easy-to-understand answers to their most frequently asked health-care questions. Ask Your Pharmacist gives readers the inside scoop on which products really work, as well as the best remedies for common ailments, and it cheerfully answers those embarrassing questions you'd rather not ask in person. The book's chapters each deal with a specific area of health: women's, men's, babies', teens' and more. And each entry explains what the problem is, why it occurs, and how it's treated with prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, or herbal remedies. Learn what to do for: ADHD * Allergies * Asthma * Athletic Injuries * Backache * Bad Breath * Bee Stings * BPH * Bunions * Cataracts * Chicken Pox * Cold and Cough * Constipation * Corns/Calluses * Dandruff * Diaper Rash * Diarrhea * Earaches * Excessive Hair * Fever * Fibromyalgia * Gas * Headache * Hives * Insomnia * Migraine * Nausea and Vomiting * Osteoarthritis * Rheumatoid Arthritis * Shingles * Sinusitis * Sore Throats * Sprains and Strains * Tinnitus * Toothache * Varicose Veins...and much, much more! Special appendixes round out the book with information for readers on: How to create a family first-aid kit, what to keep on hand when bringing home a new baby, additional resources to go to for help, and a glossary to help readers make sense of "pharmacy speak."

This comprehensive, first-of-its kind title is an indispensable resource for pharmacists looking to learn or improve crucial patient assessment skills relevant to all pharmacy practice settings. Pharmacists’ role as health care practitioners is evolving as they are taking a more active part in primary patient care -- helping patients manage their medications and diseases, providing patient education, and, in some jurisdictions, prescribing and adapting medications. To perform their day-to-day duties, pharmacists are best-served using a framework called the patient care process. This framework involves three steps: patient assessment; care plan development and implementation; and monitoring and follow up. Organized in four parts, this practical book begins with introductory chapters regarding the basics of patient assessment and the patient care process. Part II includes a detailed assessment of common symptoms encountered by pharmacists. Part III discusses assessment of patients with various chronic illnesses. Part IV addresses select specialized topics and assessment considerations. An invaluable contribution to the literature, Patient Assessment in Clinical Pharmacy: A Comprehensive Guide will be of great benefit to pharmacists, regardless of their practice setting, and to pharmacy students as well.

The goal of a high quality, cost-effective and accessible health care for patients is achieved through constructing a team-based and patient-centered health care delivery system. The expanded role of pharmacists uplifts them to patient care from dispensing and manufacturing or marketing of drugs. Along with doctors and allied health professionals, pharmacists are increasingly recognized as an integral part of the patient care team. Furthermore, colleges of pharmacy need to revise and up-date their curricula to accommodate the progressively increasing development in the pharmaceutical education and the evolving new roles of practicing pharmacists in patient care settings. This book focuses on the expanded role of the pharmacists in total patient care including prescribing, dispensing, compounding, administering and monitoring of drugs at home, hospital, community, hospice, critical care, changeover and other care settings. The sector is emerging in both developed and under-developed countries. Overburdened by patient loads and the explosion of new drugs physicians turned to pharmacists more and more for drug information especially within institutional settings. And today’s patient care pharmacists are taking more interests in medication review and reconciliation, patient education and counseling, creating drug therapy regimen and monitoring compliance. The purpose of this book is to guide the pharmacists in their daily interactions with patients and to ensure collaboration with other health professionals. The contents are mostly based on recently published articles related to patient care, with most recent ideas and activities followed by the patient care pharmacists around the globe. However, a pharmacist implements the care plan in collaboration with other health care professionals and the patient or caregiver. Along with professional guidelines, the book discusses the concepts and best practices of patient interaction, patient rights, and ethical decision-making for the professional pharmacist, apprentice and student. In every chapter, the role of pharmacists in that chapter specific issues are detailed explicitly so that a professional pharmacist or a student can figure out his or her do’s and don’ts in that specific situation. Moreover, further reading references are listed as future recommendations. So, the book is an archive of potential references too. Among so many books about patient care, either doctors’ or nurses’ roles are highlighted. The proposed book highlights the pharmacists’ roles and responsibilities to the most, separated from those of doctors and nurses, with the most recent information obtained from most publications in several journals, books, bulletins, newsletter, magazines etc.

The book consists of 600 practice-oriented questions and includes both open- and closed-book sections. Answers with brief explanations are given at the end of each test. FMCQs in Pharmacy Practice is an invaluable guide for those preparing to sit a multiple choice question examination in pharmacy.