Pharmacy: An Introduction to the Profession is a key tool for helping pharmacists-in-training understand pharmacy’s basic tenets, critical issues, and the breadth of the field.

Spanning government regulation, career pathways, membership organizations, philosophical underpinnings, and ethics, this book gives readers an insider’s familiarity with the pharmacy profession’s workings.

Key Features:

• 11 informative, thought-provoking chapters exploring the full scope of the pharmacy profession
• Straightforward analyses of top pharmacy issues and a close look at forces shaping the profession
• Salient reprints from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association that explore current issues in pharmacy, including the shortage of pharmacists, consumers’ unmet medication-related needs, the gap between pharmacists’ training and roles, and the benefits of pharmaceutical care
• A special chapter on communications in pharmacy practice by Bruce A. Berger, PhD, RPh, one of pharmacy’s foremost experts on interpersonal and organizational communication
• Extensive tables summarizing key events in pharmacy throughout history
• Important resources and contact information: associations, internships, residencies, and periodicals
• Key terms defined in text margins and compiled in a glossary

Contents

1. Pharmacy's Cadence: Drumbeat of a Profession
2. Development of Pharmacy in History as a Healing Profession C
3. Pharmaceutical Care: The Reprofessionalization of Pharmacy
4. Communications in Pharmacy Practice by Bruce Berger
5. Ethics in Pharmacy Practice
6. Career Planning: Practice Areas in Pharmacy
7. Governmental and Voluntary Oversight of Pharmacy
8. Pharmacy Associations
9. Using the Pharmacy Literature-and Writing for It
10. Postgraduate Educational Opportunities
11. Current Issues in Pharmacy

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