Paul Deslandes, Ben Pitcher, Simon Young

Understanding Medicines Management for Nursing Students

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding medicines management is central to the nursing role. As a nurse, you will need to make informed decisions about medicine use and optimisation, tailored to each patient. This book equips you with the theoretical and practical foundation to do just that. It covers all key components of medicines management, using a scenario-based approach to illustrate how each topic relates to your practice.

Key features
· Fully mapped to the NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018)
· Scenarios and activities help you to translate the theory into nursing practice
· Acts as a stepping stone to support your readiness to undertake a prescribing qualification upon registration

Produktdetails

• Transforming Nursing Practice Series
• Verlag: Learning Matters / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781529730814
• ISBN-10: 1529730813
• Artikelnr.: 62760726

Autorenporträt

Paul Deslandes is a registered pharmacist and associate professor of pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, Swansea University. He has an interest in psychopharmacology and medicines used to treat mental illness.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Commonly used medicines information resources
Chapter 2: What is a medicine?
Chapter 3: Legal and ethical considerations in medicines management
Chapter 4: Medicine formulation, routes of administration, and dosing
Chapter 5: Adverse effects of medicines and patient safety
Chapter 6: Medicines management considerations across the lifespan
Chapter 7: Societal implications of medicines use
Chapter 8: Evidence based medicines management

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Chapter 1: Finding reliable information about medicines
Chapter 2: What is a medicine?
Chapter 3: Legal and ethical considerations in medicine management
Chapter 4: Medicine formulation, routes of administration, and dosing
Chapter 5: Adverse effects of medicines and patient safety
Chapter 6: Medicines management across the lifespan
Chapter 7: Societal implications of medicines use
Chapter 8: Evidence-based medicines management