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The practice of pharmacy in the home care environment presents many opportunities for professional and personal growth. The practice continues to evolve and will continue to offer pharmacists multiple opportunities (both clinically and management related), as well as continuing... 

In the United States, concentrations range from 2% (over-the-coimter) to 4% (by prescription). Higher concentrations can be compounded by pharmacists for stubborn cases of hyperpigmentation. Multiple studies have doc-lunented the efficacy of hydroquinone formulations [44]. 

Radiopharmaceuticals are prescribed according to units of radioactivity. A pharmacist practicing nuclear pharmacy may need to convert radio activity units from curies to SI unit, becquerel and its multiples, and vice versa. The following examples illustrate the interconversion of radioactive units. 

Some patients will be seen for multiple reasons therefore, the pharmacist may need to record more than one ICD-9-CM code to fully describe the patient visit. For example, if a client with coronary artery disease (CAD) is referred to a pharmacist, it may not be uncommon that the physician requests education on lowering cholesterol through both diet and medications and education on weight loss and smoking cessation. All three conditions (CAD, obesity, and tobacco use) can be coded to represent the health conditions discussed. Example ICD-9 codes for these conditions include 414.01 (native-vessel disease), 272.2 (mixed hyperlipidemia), and 305.1 (tobacco-use disorder) (Buck and Lockyear, 2007). The specific ICD-9 code used on the claim form should be the same code used by the physician to decrease the risk of claim rejection owing to mismatched codes. Therefore, the ICD-9 code should be requested on the referral form from the physician (Snella et ah, 2004). 

Automated dispensing devices create several situations that can easily result in errors. While these machines are routinely restocked, the wrong drug still can be placed into the wrong bin during this process. Devices that have multiple medications in each drawer and/or that do not require pharmacist review of orders before access have drawbacks that are identical to the flaws in traditional floor-stock systems ... 

One common mistake that is made by inexperienced entrepreneurs and pharmacists in selling their product or service is to focus on its features. They describe these features or aspects of the product or service but do not relate to the customer or how the features provide benefit or value. Benefits relate directly to how the product or service will make buyers lives better. Investors are looking for an obvious value proposition and preferably one that is recurring or leads to multiple selling opportunities. 

Summary. It is widely accepted that the pharmacist shortage is a reality. Nevertheless, quality gains in the medication use process must move forward and, therefore, multiple, partial solutions should be considered and implemented judiciously. These solutions should be built on the expectation that the demand for pharmacists and their services will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. 

The existence of a pharmacist shortage in the United States is an established fact. This situation has developed at the same time that national priorities for improved safety and quality in the medication use system have achieved wide support. Because it is unlikely that the number of new pharmacists can be greatly increased, the simultaneous implementation of multiple partial solutions should be considered. These solutions should be considered in the light of continuing progress toward a medication use system of fhe highest quality and a likely scenario that the demand for pharmacisfs and their services will continue to exceed the available supply. 

The first case of the new syndrome associated with the use of extract of Jamaica ginger was seen by Dr Goldfain at an Oklahoma hospital on 27 February 1930. By the end of the day he had treated four patients, all apparently suffering from the same syndrome, a multiple neuritis (inflammation of the nerves). It so happened that one of the patients was a pharmacist who had sold the jake extract and had himself taken some ten days earlier. Another sixty-five patients with the same symptoms presented themselves, all of whom had taken Jamaica ginger extract seven to sixteen days prior to the onset of their symptoms. While the association between the use of the Jamaica ginger extract and the illness was made, this was puzzling because the remedy had been used since the middle of the nineteenth century without any apparent problem. 

The USP requires that pharmacists apply, for articles requiring constitution before use, a suitable BUD for the constituted product as identified in the labeling by the manufacturer. For solid oral dosage forms in multiple- and single-unit containers, the BUD is one year or the manufacturer s expiration date, whichever is earlier. 

There is no limit to the quantity of effervescent paracetamol that may be purchased at one time although the control through a pharmacy would be at the discretion of the pharmacist involved with the sale. While there is no legal requirement for general retailers (i.e. nonpharmacy) to limit the supply of paracetamol, the reason for the legislation was clearly explained (i.e. to reduce the number of intentional or accidental suicides using paracetamol) and many retailers introduced a code of practice or have programmed their tills to prevent multiple sales. 

A number of styles of question have been identified by psychologists and linguists, but there are six basic types that will be used by pharmacists closed, open, leading/biased, probing, prompting and multiple questions. 

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