JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objective

This course is designed to impart the basic knowledge and skills that are required

to practice pharmacy including the provision of pharmaceutical care services to both healthcare professionals and patients in clinical settings.

Course Outcome

Upon completion of this course it is expected that students shall be able to:

• Understand the elements of pharmaceutical care and provide comprehensive patient care services
• Interpret the laboratory results to aid the clinical diagnosis of various disorders
• Provide integrated, critically analyzed medicine and poison information to enable healthcare professionals in the efficient patient management

UNIT - I

Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy: Definition, evolution and scope of clinical pharmacy, International and national scenario of clinical MPP, Pharmaceutical care Clinical Pharmacy Services: Ward round participation, Drug therapy review (Drug therapy monitoring including medication order review, chart endorsement, clinical review and pharmacist interventions)

UNIT - II

Clinical Pharmacy Services: Patient medication history interview, Basic concept of medicine and poison information services, Basic concept of pharmacovigilance, Hemovigilance, Materiovigilance and AEFI, Patient medication counseling, Drug utilization evaluation, Documentation of clinical pharmacy services, Quality assurance of clinical pharmacy services.

UNIT - III

Patient Data Analysis: Patient Data & Practice Skills: Patient's case history – its structure and significances in drug therapy management, Common medical abbreviations, and terminologies used in clinical practice, Communication skills: verbal and non-verbal communications, its applications in patient care services. Lab Data Interpretation: Hematological tests, Renal function tests, Liver function tests

UNIT - IV

Lab Data Interpretation: Tests associated with cardiac disorders, Pulmonary function tests, Thyroid function tests, Fluid and electrolyte balance, Microbiological culture sensitivity tests

UNIT - V

Medicines & Poisons Information Services: Medicine Information Service: Definition and need for medicine information service, Medicine information resources, Systematic approach in answering medicine information queries, Preparation of verbal and written response, establishing a drug information centre. Poisons Information Service: Definition, need, organization and functions of poison information centre.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. A Textbook of Clinical MPP – Essential concepts and skills –Parthasarathi G, Karin Nyfort- Hansen and Milap Nahata
• 2. Practice Standards and Definitions - The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
• 3. Basic skills in interpreting laboratory data - Scott LT, American Society of Health System Pharmacists Inc
• 4. Thomas J Johnson, Critical Care Pharmacotherapeutics
• 5. Collen D L, Sneha B S, Fundamental Skills for Patient Care in MPP
• 6. Patient Assessment in Pharmacy, by Yolanda M H
• 7. Patient Communication for Pharmacy : A Case-Study Approach on Theory and Practice, Min Liu, Lakesha M. Butler
• 8. 11. Fundamental Skills for Patient Care in Pharmacy Practice by Colleen Doherty Lauster, Sneha Baxi Srivastava
• 9. Relevant review articles from recent medical and pharmaceutical literature
• 10. Fundamentals of Clinical Pharmacy Practice by D. Sudheer Kumar, Dr. J. Krishnaveni M. Pharm I Year I Sem (PHARMACY PRACTICE)