Pharmacy Practice

Topics for presentation

1. Weighing, Measurement of Liquids

2. Dissolution, Filtration, Mixing
3. Size Reduction, Size Separation, Counting Devices
4. Resources Required for Good Compounding and Dispensing Practices
5. Guidelines for the Pharmacists to Develop a High Standard of Professional
Practice
6. Coloring Agent, Flavouring Agent, Improvization
7. Incompatibility, Physical and Chemical Degradation, Factors Influencing
Degradation
8. Containers and Closures for Dispensed Products, Packaging Material
9. Labeling of Dispensed Medicines, Cautionary and Advisory Labels
10.Product Recalls and Withdrawals
11.Solutions, Suspensions
12.Emulsions and Creams
13.Ointments, Paste, Gels
14.Suppositories and Pessaries
15.Powders and Granules
16.Oral Unit Dosage Forms
17.Aerosols, Dry Powder Devices
18.Wound Management
19.Medical Gases
20.Aseptic Technique
21.Design and Operation of Clean Room
22.Parenteral Products
23.Intravenous Additives
24.Cytotoxic Agents
25.Total Parenteral Nutrition
26.Opthalmic Products
27.Sterility Testing
28.Patient Compliance and Counseling
29.Patient Medication Record
30.Diagnostic Test
31.Substance Misuse, Addiction
32.Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
33.Adverse Drug Reaction
34.Sterilization Techniques
35.Responding to the Symptoms
36.Therapeutics in Practice, Practical Pharmacokinetics
37. Homeopathic Medicine and Traditional Medicine Preparations
38. Sources of Information for Compounding and Dispensing
39.System of Weights and Measures
Read through the following scenarios and think carefully how you would react and
deal with such a situation in 'real life'. Consider how the other person would be
feeling. Remember, there will no one perfect answer. Discuss the scenarios with a
friend or group of friends. This will allow you to identify the different ways people
react to the same situation.

1. A young girl returns to your pharmacy to purchase laxatives. You notice that she
has been buying them fairly regularly, and decide to tackle the situation. How
would you approach this as the pharmacist? How do you think the young girl will
react?

2. A drug addict asks to purchase some 1 ml 'insulin' needles. You know that there
is a needle exchange scheme at a pharmacy on the other side of town. How do you
give this advice to the addict, or advise him on the safe disposal of the needles?
How do you think the addict would react?

3. A hospital prescription for morphine, written for pain relief in a terminally ill
patient, has been written incorrectly by the houseman. He has already been on duty
for 40 hours. How do you approach him? How do you think he will react?

4. You are working on the production of a batch of drug in industry. Your boss is
pressing you to release the drug onto the market; however, you feel that it has not
fully met all of the quality assurance requirements. How would you present your
case to a board of managers?

5. Worried parents ask for your advice as a pharmacist. They have found some
tablets in their son's bedroom. You identify them, and they are drugs that have the
potential for misuse and abuse. How do you handle this situation? How do you
think the parents will react? Consider the feelings/reaction of the son.

6. A middle-aged man comes storming into your pharmacy. You have given him
the wrong strength of tablets and he is very angry. How do you deal with this
situation? How do you think the man will react?

7. An older lady wishes to purchase some codeine linctus 'for someone else'. After
much soul searching and questioning, you decide to sell her a 100 ml bottle. She
returns 10 minutes later with a broken bottle (and not much evidence of codeine
linctus). She claims she has dropped it, and wants a replacement. What do you do?