TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Applying Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice: How to Use This Study Guide A1 - Matthias, Kathryn R. A1 - Katz, Michael D. Y1 - 2023 N1 - T2 - Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice Study Guide, 6e AB - As health care becomes more complex in the 21st century, the health professional student increasingly is challenged to learn a rapidly expanding amount of information as well as necessary skills to obtain and apply that knowledge in a patient care setting. Students of pharmacotherapy quickly learn that the field is rapidly changing as our knowledge of human disease evolves and new drugs are developed to improve patient outcomes. Students also learn that while drug therapy can have tremendous beneficial effects on patient outcomes, such therapy also has the potential to cause harm. The “art” of pharmacotherapy is in applying knowledge and making therapeutic decisions that are most likely to have maximum positive benefit for a specific patient. As a companion book to Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, 6th ed. (PPP), this study guide combined with a simplified electronic medical record (EMR) is designed to assist the student in learning how to obtain and apply didactic knowledge to specific patient situations. Such application requires skills that cannot be learned in lectures or in other passive learning situations but must be learned by practice and repetition. The more students practice applying their knowledge, using their patient assessment skills, and making therapeutic decisions in their preclinical courses, the more prepared they will be to apply these skills to real patients in their clinical rotations. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - ppp.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1198802001 ER -