Pharmacy practice

Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:
*Disease-state management
*Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommendation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjustments, etc.)
*Professional development.
*Pharmaceutical care
*Extemporaneous pharmaceutical compounding.
*Communication skills
*Health psychology.
*Patient care
*Drug abuse prevention
*Prevention of drug interactions, including drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions
*Prevention (or minimization) of adverse events
*Incompatibility
*Drug discovery and evaluation
*Detect pharmacotherapy-related problems, such as:
**The patient is taking a drug which he/she does not need.
**The patient is taking a drug for a specific disease, other than one afflicting the patient.
**The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.
**The patient is taking a drug underdose.
**The patient is taking a drug Drug overdose|overdose.
**The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.
**The patient is suffering from a drug interaction.