Clinical pharmacists need to know about opportunities to advance their practice and expand the profession. However, the evolving role of the pharmacist and the potential impact of health care reform make it difficult for pharmacists in all areas of practice to stay current with advances in the pharmacy profession. This is the focus of Science and Practice of Pharmacotherapy, the eighth book in the Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program, seventh edition (PSAP-VII).

Released on October 17, Science and Practice of Pharmacotherapy provides evidence-based information on both advances in patient care approaches and innovative practice models. The book has two learning modules offering a total of 11.5 continuing pharmacy education credits.

The first module covers practitioner-based skills and tools such as motivational interviewing, cultural competence, drug information retrieval, and medication therapy management. The second module focuses on innovations at the health care system level, describing new opportunities for clinical pharmacists and the potential impact of health care reform. Chapters cover the patient-centered medical home, transitions of care, quality measurements in managed care, and practice-based research networks.

Science and Practice of Pharmacotherapy is designed to assist pharmacists who want to:

• Design a communication strategy to help patients decide to engage in healthy behaviors so that chronic disease outcomes are positively affected.
• Incorporate cultural competence into their practice by using an understanding of the patient’s culture to provide culturally and linguistically competent care.
• Use current technology to efficiently retrieve and effectively use drug information resources, including at the patient’s bedside.
• Identify the expanding professional opportunities afforded by medication therapy management and incorporate these into clinical practice.
• Explore patient-centered medical home models and identify the pharmacist’s role in delivering individual patient care in the medical home.
• Positively affect care transitions through an understanding of the process, areas for improvement, and local and national initiatives related to transitional care.
• Recognize how pharmacists contribute to the quality of patient care and serve in a unique role to optimize pharmacotherapy by meeting national quality of care standards.
• Investigate the role that pharmacists can play in practice-based research networks to research quality and safety issues in everyday practice.

All PSAP-VII chapters include an extensive annotated bibliography that identifies key research articles, clinical practice guidelines, texts, and Web sites relevant to today’s practicing clinical pharmacist. PSAP books are available in both print and online formats and as either single books or the full series (11 books). Other books in the series are Cardiology, Critical and Urgent Care, Women’s and Men’s Health, Pediatrics, Chronic Illnesses, Oncology, Geriatrics, Infectious Diseases, Neurology/Psychiatry, and Gastroenterology/Nutrition.

Each PSAP-VII book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive information to expand your knowledge in the area covered. For specific information on the release date, continuing pharmacy education credits, and activity numbers for each book, or to place your online order, visit www.accp.com/bookstore/psap7.aspx. Books are priced as follows; shipping and handling charges apply to print books only.

ACCP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has approved PSAP-VII for use in Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) recertification.