COMPUTER AND ITS APPLICATION complete syllabus

  

PHARMACY PRACTICE-III (COMPUTER AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHARMACY) (Theory)

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1.     FUNDAMENTALS BASIC CONCEPT OF COMPUTERS: History of Data Processing, Types of Computers, Components of a Computer, Computer System and Business Computer System, Backing Storage Devices, Unit of Memory, Viruses and Anti-viruses Issues.

 

2.     RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES:

 

3.     SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: What is a System?, Steps in system life cycle, Data Gathering and Data Analysis, Designing a New System, Development and Implementation of New System, Documentation.

 

4.     DATA PROCESSING: Data Processing, The Data Processing Cycle, The Collection and Computing of data, Manual collection of data, The main methods of data input, Devices used to collect data, Data Verification, Data Validation, Output and Recording of data, Types of data processing systems, Types of Computer Operation, Batch Processing and Real-time Processing.

 

5.     APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS IN HOSPITAL PHARMACY: Patterns of Computer use in Hospital Pharmacy, Patient record database management, Medication order entry, Drug labels and list, Intravenous solution and admixture, Patient Medication profiles, Inventory control, Management report & Statistics.

 

6.     APPLICATION OF COMPUTER IN COMMUNITY PHARMACY: Computerizing the

Prescription Dispensing process, Use of Computers for Pharmaceutical Care in community pharmacy, Accounting and General Ledger system.

 

7.     APPLICATION OF DRUG INFORMATION RETRIEVAL & STORAGE: Introduction

Advantages of Computerized Literature Retrieval use of Computerized Retrieval.

 

8.     DATA ANALYSIS: Introduction and implementations of statistical design and test. Students Ttest, Chi Square, ANOVA using statistical packages like SPSS, Med Calc, Kinetica etc.

   

PARMACY PRACTICE-III (COMPUTER AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHARMACY) Practical

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1.     INTERNET AND E-MAIL: Internet and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, Addresses, Links and Downloading, Searching the Internet, E-mail and Newsgroups, Favourites, security and Customizing Explorer.

 

2.     WEB PAGE DEVELOPMENT: Introduction to Front-page, Creating a First Web site, Basic

Formatting Techniques, Manipulating Tables within Front-page, Front-page, Picture and MultiMedia, Hyper linking, Bookmarks and Image Maps, Introducing Front-page ―components‖, Front-page and Frames, Managing your Web, Good site design, Publishing and publicizing.

 

3.     DATA PRESENTATION SKILLS: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power point.

 

4.     UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL PACKAGES: SPSS,

Kinetica, Med Calc.