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A pharmacy is also the location where drugs are dispensed. Pharmacies are located in both the community as a business, or in an institutional setting such as a hospital or nursing home. | A pharmacy is also the location where drugs are dispensed. Pharmacies are located in both the community as a business, or in an institutional setting such as a hospital or nursing home. | ||
==Disciplines== | |||
Pharmacy is broken into many disciplines and practice areas. | |||
*Pharmacology- how drugs interact with biological systems | |||
*Medicinal Chemistry- how drugs interact with biochemicals, and how drugs are discovered and created | |||
*Pharmaceutics- how drugs dosage forms are made | |||
*Pharmacy Practice- interactions with patients to optimize drug therapy | |||
Within each field, and practitioner of pharmacy can specialize in a number of processes, from specific types of dosage forms, to specific types of diseases (cardiology or infectious disease for example), to specific drug families (examples: ACE inhibitors or fluroquinolones). | |||
Revision as of 22:11, 3 March 2009
Pharmacy is the health science that studies the use of drugs in biological systems. The Pharmacy profession is charged with the safe and effective use of drug therapy. A practitioner of pharmacy is a pharmacist.
A pharmacy is also the location where drugs are dispensed. Pharmacies are located in both the community as a business, or in an institutional setting such as a hospital or nursing home.
Disciplines
Pharmacy is broken into many disciplines and practice areas.
- Pharmacology- how drugs interact with biological systems
- Medicinal Chemistry- how drugs interact with biochemicals, and how drugs are discovered and created
- Pharmaceutics- how drugs dosage forms are made
- Pharmacy Practice- interactions with patients to optimize drug therapy
Within each field, and practitioner of pharmacy can specialize in a number of processes, from specific types of dosage forms, to specific types of diseases (cardiology or infectious disease for example), to specific drug families (examples: ACE inhibitors or fluroquinolones).