Syllabus
Lectures
Pharmaceutical care as a part of health care – definition, types, roles, and limits.
Professional medicine information. Information resources I.
Professional medicine information. Information resources II.
Pharmacoepidemiology I.
Pharmacoepidemiology II.
Algorithms in pharmaceutical care.
Self-medication.
Drug-related problems, medication review.
Documentation in health care.
Trends in pharmaceutical care in Europe and other countries.
Counselling in the pharmacy. Information activities in the pharmacy.
Pharmacy practice as the branch and its position in system of pharmacy. Basic pharmaceutical terms and their use. Information about student’s 6M practical training in pharmacies.
Habituates substances and precursors in pharmacies. Medical prescriptions - theory.
Pharmacies as health care facilities. Pharmacies in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Good pharmacy practice. Conception of current pharmacy practice. Preparation of medicines in pharmacies.
Supplying activity in pharmacies. Unusable medications.
Workers in pharmacy.
Control and other activities in a pharmacy. Professional administration in pharmacy. Current problems in pharmacy practice.
Dispensing activity in pharmacy. Dispensing of medicines.
Hospital pharmacy practice.
Ethic issues in pharmaceutical care.
Professional organizations for pharmacists. Czech Chamber of Pharmacists.
Economics of pharmacy.
Seminars
Pharmacopoeias. European and Czech Pharmacopoeia in pharmacies. Venena, separanda, inoxia.
Pharmaceutical calculations.
Medical prescriptions – training.
Professional information resources I.
Professional information resources II.
Students´ presentations.
Training of pharmacy practice´ issues.
Annotation
The pharmaceutical care is based on an individual approach to the patient, it is focused on patient´s pharmacotherapy and the management of drug-related problems. The fundamental idea of the both subjects Pharmaceutical Care I and Pharmaceutical Care II is to acquire knowledge and skills which stimulate the promotion of the effective, safe, and cost-effective pharmacotherapy.
The aim of the subject is to learn basic principles of pharmaceutical care, to familiarize them with the tools used in pharmaceutical care (pharmacotherapy, algorithms, documentation, information resources, legislation, basics of pharmacoepidemiology), and to trained use of those principles and tools actively for a specific nosology units or symptoms in context of the patient. Furthermore, the aim of the subject is to acquire complex knowledge and selected skills in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical care.