PATIENT COUNSELLING: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Patient counselling is defined as providing medication information to the patients or their representatives on directions of use, side effects, precautions, storage, diet, and life style changes either…
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! The term “communication” is derived from the Latin word ‘communicare’ which refers to sharing, contributing, informing, popularising and spreading. Communication can be expressed as a process in which…
PRESCRIPTION AND PRESCRIPTION HANDLING: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! A medical prescription is a written order from a doctor to a chemist that includes instructions for preparing and dispensing medicines to a patient. It represents…
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Community Pharmacists are experts in knowing the correct use of medications. They may dispense prescriptions, sell OTC (without prescription drugs) medicines and give advice and…
BIOLOGICALS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Biological products are large, complex molecules belonging to a varied group of products. They include blood, blood components, somatic cells, gene therapy, tissues, recombinant proteins, and vaccines; and are…
CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacologists and healthcare professionals! The word chemotherapy usually refers to cancer treatment. In the simplest sense, chemotherapy is the treatment of an ailment by chemicals, especially by killing micro-organisms. As such, the…
AUTOCOIDS: HISTAMINE, ANTIHISTAMINES, 5-HT/SEROTONIN, AND PROSTAGLANDINS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacologists and healthcare professionals! The word autocoids is derived from the Greek words ‘autos’ (self) and ‘akos’ (healing element). Autocoids are chemical signals produced by different cells of…
HORMONES AND HORMONE ANTAGONISTS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacologists and healthcare professionals! The word ‘Hormone’ has originated from a Greek word ‘Hormaein’ which means ‘to impel’. Thus, a hormone is a substance which is secreted by specialised cells…
DRUGS ACTING ON THE KIDNEY: DIURETICS AND ANTI-DIURETICS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacologists and healthcare professionals! The kidneys are vital organs that maintain fluid and electrolyte balance in the body. Drugs acting on the kidney—diuretics and anti-diuretics—are among…
DRUGS ACTING ON THE GASTRO INTESTINAL TRACT: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacologists and healthcare professionals! The gastrointestinal tract is one of the most complex and vital systems in the human body, and drugs acting on it are among…