Pharmaceutical Care Practice: The Patient-Centered Approach to Medication Management, Third Edition

Pharmaceutical Care Practice, 3e provides the basic information necessary to establish, support, deliver, and maintain medication management services. This trusted text explains how a practitioner delivers pharmaceutical care services and provides a vision of how these services fit into the evolving healthcare structure. Whether you are a student or a practicing pharmacist seeking to improve your patient-care skills, Pharmaceutical Care Practice, 3e provides the step-by-step implementation strategies necessary to practice in this patient-centered environment. This practical guide to providing pharmaceutical care helps you to: Understand your growing role in drug therapy assessment and delivery Learn an effective process for applying your pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to identify and prevent or resolve drug therapy problems Establish a strong therapeutic relationship with your patients Optimize your patients’ well-being by achieving therapeutic goals Improve your follow-up evaluation abilities Documents your pharmaceutical care and obtain reimbursement Work collaboratively with other patient care providers The patient-centered approach advocated by the authors, combined with an orderly, logical, rational decision-making process assessing the indication, effectiveness, safety, and convenience of all patient drug therapies will have a measurable positive impact on the outcomes of drug therapy.

About the Author

Dr. Cipolle is a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy graduate programs in Hospital Pharmacy and Social and Administrative Pharmacy. He has developed educational programs for pharmacy students, residents, fellows and graduate students in therapeutic drug monitoring, specialty areas of pharmacotherapy, and pharmaceutical care. Dr. Cipolle has been instrumental in the efforts to implement problem-based education in the pharmacy curricula. Dr. Cipolle has also been a primary investigator on a 3 year $1 million research project entitled: The Implementation and Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Care in the Community Practice Setting. He currently teaches the practice of pharmaceutical care in the professional curriculum, trains practicing pharmacists, and conducts research in the community practice setting. Presently, Dr. Cipolle serves as the Director of the Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care at the University of Minnesota which serves as a research and program development unit devoted to the advancement of pharmaceutical care.