Book Description

We are very pleased to put forth the revised edition of 'Laboratory Manual of Community Pharmacy and Management'. We have incorporated all the suggestions, modified it to make it easier, student friendly and relevant in terms of achieving curriculum outcome. We are very much thankful to all the learned teachers who have given their feedback whole-heartedly. We have even incorporated the changes in this manual based on the feedback given by the teachers from all the institutes. Now, we believe that the manual has been fulfilling the aspirations of pharmacology teachers and students too. This manual is prepared as per PCI Education Regulations, 2020 for Diploma Course in Pharmacy. The manual is designed to train the students for improving their professional skills of providing various pharmaceutical care services in community pharmacy. The special emphasis is given on the activities that can be performed in the community pharmacy so that the students can do the effective patient counselling on various chronic diseases. The practical manual helps students to gain in-depth knowledge of providing professional services like handling of prescriptions, preparation of dispensing and auxiliary labels, health screening services, administration techniques of various dosage forms and use of community pharmacy software for the betterment of the community health. This manual is designed for 'outcome-based education' and each experiment is arranged in a uniform way such as practical significance, practical outcomes (PrOs) and its mapping with course outcomes, minimum theoretical background, resources used, procedure, precautions, observations, result, conclusion, references and related questions. Moreover, assessment scheme is also given to help the student and teacher to know what is to be assessed. Every experiment has the component of activity or role play included so that the students will be able to interact with the patients and give them the counselling tips on administration, proper use and storage of the dosage forms. The preparation of counselling materials such as patient information leaflets is also included as an activity. We acknowledge the help and cooperation extended by various persons in bringing out this manual. We are highly indebted to the authors of various books and articles mentioned in references of each experiment, which became a major source of information for writing this manual. We also admire the publishers, designers, and printers who graciously worked hard to publish this manual. Hope this manual will help the students to learn the concept, principles and perform the activities and role play for counselling the public about diseases and medications. We wish you all the best!!!