Liz Lawson, Dawn Hennefer

Medicines Management in Adult Nursing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Correct medicines management for adults is a crucial skill that adult nursing students must develop in order to provide safe care to their patients. This book specifically supports pre-registration students in meeting the required competencies for medicines management needed to pass formal assessment and qualify as an adult nurse. It is clearly structured around the NMC Essential Skills Clusters for medicines management, covering legal aspects, drugs calculations, administration, storage, record keeping, introductory pharmacology, patient communication and contextual issues in medication. The book is written in user-friendly language and uses patient scenarios to explain concepts and apply theory to practice.

Produktdetails

• Transforming Nursing Practice Series
• Verlag: Learning Matters / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781844458424
• ISBN-10: 1844458423
• Artikelnr.: 29384989

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Lawson is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Salford with a clinical background mainly in child health nursing. She teaches physiology, pharmacology and pathology to undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare professionals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Drug Calculations
The Law Covering Medicines
Ethical Frameworks
Pharmacology
Medicines Administration
Partnership Working
Evidence-Based Practice

Rezensionen

'With the expansion of nursing roles in medication management, the introduction of the nursing formulary and the Nursing and Midwifery Council's 2012 essential skills clusters, this succinct new book promotes the fundamentals of safe and effective medicines management to pre-registration nursing students' -
Nursing Standard