Medicines Management
A Guide for Nurses
Published on 28. January 2010
320 pages
978-1-4443-1976-7 (ISBN)
Description
The safe and effective management of medicines is an essentialclinical skill, accounting for up to 40% of a nurse's timewithin practice. Medicines Management provides nurses with aclear, concise and practical exploration of their role inpharmacology and medicines management. It explains what is meant bymedicines management, discusses the current professional and legalcontext, and gives insight into the reasons why mistakes are made.
Focusing predominantly on the principles of safe drugadministration, this pocket-sized text also explores legal andprofessional issues, medication errors, administration of oralmedication, injections, and intravenous fluids and medicines,medication management in children, and basic pharmacology of commonmedications.
* In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nursesseries
* Case studies and examples provided throughout
* Focuses on safe medicines management in day-to-day clinicalpractice
* Appendices with a glossary of terms and a list ofabbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurement
* Includes a chapter on paediatric considerations
Reviews / Votes
"This is an excellent guide onsafe and effective medicines management. It is essential that allnurses be competent in the area of medication administration, andthis handy resource is a user-friendly guide that will be valuablefor a variety of healthcare providers." (Doddy's, 20April 2012)More details
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Philip Jevon, RN BSc(Hons) PGCE, is ResuscitationOfficer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK; HonoraryClinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK.
Elizabeth Payne, BSc(Hons) in Pharmacy, MSc in ClinicalPharmacy, MRPharmS, is Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Education,Training and Staff Performance, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK.
Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is Senior ChargeNurse Critical Care, University HospitalsBirmingham NHS FoundationTrust and Consultant/Honorary Lecturer Resuscitation Services UKand Visiting Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK.
Ruth Endacott is Professor of Clinical Nursing at theUniversity of Plymouth, UK andLa Trobe University, Australia.
Content
Foreword (Jane Hare).
Contributors list.
Chapter 1 Introduction to medicines management (RuthEndacott).
Chapter 2 Legal issues of medicines management (RichardGriffith).
Chapter 3 Safety in medicines management (ElizabethPayne).
Chapter 4 Prescription of medicines (ElizabethPayne).
Chapter 5 Systems for medicines administration (Kate Rolandand Ruth Endacott).
Chapter 6 Principles of safe administration of medicines (DanHiggins).
Chapter 7 Medication errors (Ruth Endacott).
Chapter 8 Basic pharmacology of common medications (GarethWalters).
Chapter 9 Administration of oral medication (Brian Gammon andDan Higgins).
Chapter 10 Administration of injections (JanetHunter).
Chapter 11 Administration of intravenous fluids and medicines(Dan Higgins).
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous routes of medication administration(Matthew Aldridge).
Chapter 13 Medicines management in children (ElizabethPayne).
Chapter 14 Nurse prescribing (Elizabeth Payne).
Index.
