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Drugs causing alopecia
Some drugs may cause hair loss by interfering with the cycle of hair growth.
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High Risk Medicines
What are high risk (alert) medicines? Examples of high risk medicines, potential harm and interventions to reduce patient harm.
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Routes of Drug Administration
In this guide, we summarise the most common routes used to administer drugs, the advantages and disadvantages of each drug route and examples of dosage forms that are used to deliver the active drug to the intended site of action in the body.
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Patient/Carer Education Medication Checklist
This checklist is aimed at pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and other healthcare professionals (e.g. doctors). The checklist is intended to serve…
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Pharmacy Abbreviations: Over-the-counter (OTC)
The list below shows some pharmacy abbreviations that you may come across when working on the health care counter and…
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Health Promotion in the Pharmacy: Healthy Eating
The pharmacy can be an ideal setting for promoting healthy eating to your patients and customers. We have put together…
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Interpreting Lab, Medical & Clinical Tests
This section features links to clinical practice resources on lab, medical and clinical tests such as HbA1c, spirometry, TFTs (thyroid function tests), LFTs (liver function tests) and ABGs (arterial blood gases).
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Medical Terms With Definitions Describing Clinical Signs and Symptoms
Here is a list of some medical terms with definitions describing some clinical signs and symptoms which you may encounter…
Clinical Skills
In this category, you can find clinical skills resources that cover topics such as medical terminology, drug abbreviations, lab test data interpretation and taking a patient history.