Overview
The book every pharmacy student must own!
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a one-of-a-kind roadmap for excelling in pharmacy practice courses. A combination calculations, kinetics, drug information, medical terminology, and laboratory data book all in one, the Guide helps you organize case information, improve problem-solving skills, learn terminology, and impress faculty during rounds.
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is presented in three sections that span the entire pharmacy curriculum:
- Systems and Expectations covering ethics, communication, monitoring drug therapy, and regulatory agencies
- Patient Care Tool Box covering medical terminology, pharmacokinetics, laboratory data, and physical assessment
- Topics in Pharmacy Practice covering Drug Information and Drug Literature Evaluation, Community/Ambulatory Care, Institutional Pharmacy Practice, Public Health, Reducing Health Disparities Through Domestic and Global Outreach to the Undeserved
Valuable for both introductory and advanced practice course, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a book you will turn to throughout your entire pharmacy education.
Synopsis
The book every pharmacy student must own!
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a one-of-a-kind roadmap for excelling in pharmacy practice courses. A combination calculations, kinetics, drug information, medical terminology, and laboratory data book all in one, the Guide helps you organize case information, improve problem-solving skills, learn terminology, and impress faculty during rounds.
Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is presented in three sections that span the entire pharmacy curriculum:
- Systems and Expectations covering ethics, communication, monitoring drug therapy, and regulatory agencies
- Patient Care Tool Box covering medical terminology, pharmacokinetics, laboratory data, and physical assessment
- Topics in Pharmacy Practice covering Drug Information and Drug Literature Evaluation, Community/Ambulatory Care, Institutional Pharmacy Practice, Public Health, Reducing Health Disparities Through Domestic and Global Outreach to the Undeserved
Valuable for both introductory and advanced practice course, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide is a book you will turn to throughout your entire pharmacy education.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Kim Benner, BS, PharmD(Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy)
Description:This claims to be a "one step handbook that spans the entire [pharmacy] curriculum." While true, this is perhaps an overzealous goal for a 587-page text meant to be a handbook. Most unique about the book is the use of multiple application exercises (with answers), role playing, case discussions, and patient encounters which emphasize a patient-centered approach to care.
Purpose:The book contains general advice for budding pharmacy professionals, while providing some detailed information in areas such as laboratory values and physical exams. All areas of pharmacy are explored, including community, institutional, managed care, and public health.
Audience:While the preface does contain a note to faculty/preceptors, the intended audience includes pharmacy students and the book appropriately uses primarily pharmacy academicians as authors.
Features:The book is quite comprehensive, covering such community pharmacy issues as filling prescriptions, while also going into detail on institutional issues, such as patient monitoring and writing notes in charts. It references many Joint Commission standards with a few omissions, such as certain significant national patient safety goals. An exceptional chapter on communication includes patient interviewing techniques and presentation skills. Unique aspects include an informative section on medical terminology and pharmacy vernacular and a part that reviews answering drug information questions and preparing journal clubs or monographs. The sections on laboratory values and pharmacokinetic theory are quite exhaustive and contain information that can be retrieved easily from other books. It briefly mentions the importance of professional organizations, primarily in community pharmacy.
Assessment:This would serve as a nice addition to pharmacy students' libraries early in their education.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Kim W. Benner, BS, PharmD(Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy)Description: This claims to be a "one step handbook that spans the entire [pharmacy] curriculum." While true, this is perhaps an overzealous goal for a 587-page text meant to be a handbook. Most unique about the book is the use of multiple application exercises (with answers), role playing, case discussions, and patient encounters which emphasize a patient-centered approach to care.
Purpose: The book contains general advice for budding pharmacy professionals, while providing some detailed information in areas such as laboratory values and physical exams. All areas of pharmacy are explored, including community, institutional, managed care, and public health.
Audience: While the preface does contain a note to faculty/preceptors, the intended audience includes pharmacy students and the book appropriately uses primarily pharmacy academicians as authors.
Features: The book is quite comprehensive, covering such community pharmacy issues as filling prescriptions, while also going into detail on institutional issues, such as patient monitoring and writing notes in charts. It references many Joint Commission standards with a few omissions, such as certain significant national patient safety goals. An exceptional chapter on communication includes patient interviewing techniques and presentation skills. Unique aspects include an informative section on medical terminology and pharmacy vernacular and a part that reviews answering drug information questions and preparing journal clubs or monographs. The sections on laboratory values and pharmacokinetic theory are quite exhaustive and contain information that can be retrieved easily from other books. It briefly mentions the importance of professional organizations, primarily in community pharmacy.
Assessment: This would serve as a nice addition to pharmacy students' libraries early in their education.