Annotated Bibliography of Pharmacy Related Readings Wertheimer, A. I., & Smith, M. C. (Eds.). (1974). Pharmacy practice: Social and behavioral aspects. Baltimore: University Park Press. Drs. Wertheimer and Smith compile 100 selected journal readings related to pharmacy’s patient healthcare and relations with other healthcare services. The articles focus on subjects like: pharmacist and patient behavior, patient’s wants and needs, and analysis of health care systems. This book was intended for current and future pharmacists, and has very interesting and insightful articles that teach more than one could get from pharmacy school alone. The articles contain research data, charts and statistics to convey their information. This book proves to be a good resource as it gives insight into the minds of patients and pharmacists, but is a bit dated, as is over thirty years old. Humber, J. M., & Almeder, R. F. (Eds.). (1998). Alternative medicine and ethics. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. This part in a series of books is dedicated to reviewing literature important to alternative medicine in bioethics. These editors and the authors believe alternative medicine is very important to healthcare and should receive more attention from everyone, including pharmacists. This does not prove to be a good resource as it doesn’t give information about pharmacist duty; it just tries to push that pharmacy needs alternative medicine. Wolinsky, I., & Williams, L. (Eds.). (2002). Nutrition in pharmacy practice. Washington, D.C: American Pharmaceutical Association. The editors of this book have assembled a list of authors with lots of research, clinical, and pharmacy experience. The chapters cover areas such as nutrition in general, why pharmacists should use dietary counseling, as well as nutrition’s role in energy balance, pediatrics, and disease. This book is intended for practicing pharmacists and tries to meet their needs. This book’s chapter on pharmacists and their role in dietary counseling provides insight on how important dietary factors are to drug interaction and shows that dietary counseling may be rising in importance for pharmacists. The rest of this book, however, does not seem like a useful resource, as it is very specific and detailed. Dessing, R. P., & Flameling, J. (2003). Ethics in pharmacy: a new definition of responsibility. Pharmacy World & Science, 25(1), 3-10. This article’s audience is practicing pharmacists and it covers what ethics means to the field of pharmacy. Its topics include: values pharmacists should hold, the rules of conduct and responsible behavior, and patient interaction policy. This article answers questions as to what we should look for in a pharmacist. Walton, SM, Cooksey, JA, Knapp, KK, et al. (2004). Analysis of pharmacist and The subject of this article is the cross-sectional analysis of the impact of the need for prescriptions across the nation on the numbers of pharmacists and pharmacist aides. This objective study seems to be information for primarily pharmacists but can interest the general public as well. This article is proof that pharmacists need aides and these aides will not likely be replaced by an increase of pharmacists. Bootman, J. L. (2004). The Future of Pharmacy. Retrieved September 5, 2006, from http://www.pfizercareerguides.com/default.asp?t=chapter&b=pharmacy&c=theFutureofPharm This short reading is part of a larger work dedicated to future pharmacist as an online guide to the career of pharmacy. This section summarizes where pharmacy started and where it has been going over the years. It provides good answers to my research questions such as: “Recent studies show consumers interact with their pharmacist 12 to 15 times a year compared to three or four times a year with their physicians.” Angelo, LB, Christensen, DB, & Ferreri, SP. (2005). Impact of community pharmacy This study done by Angelo, Christensen, and Ferreri, was intended to compare automated pharmacy and non-automated pharmacy based on the pharmacy’s productivity, amount of patient-pharmacist interaction, and patient satisfaction. The study shows patient and pharmacist surveys as well as results from observation. This study has relevance to my study as the future of pharmacy may hold more automation, and it is a very recent article. |