Medicines Management: A Guide for Nurses

The safe and effective management of medicines is an essential clinical skill, accounting for up to 40% of a nurse’s time within practice. Medicines Management provides nurses with a clear, concise and practical exploration of their role in pharmacology and medicines management. It explains what is meant by medicines management, discusses the current professional and legal context, and gives insight into the reasons why mistakes are made.
Focusing predominantly on the principles of safe drug administration, this pocket–sized text also explores legal and professional issues, medication errors, administration of oral medication, injections, and intravenous fluids and medicines, medication management in children, and basic pharmacology of common medications.In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses seriesCase studies and examples provided throughoutFocuses on safe medicines management in day–to–day clinical practiceAppendices with a glossary of terms and a list of abbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurementIncludes a chapter on paediatric considerations

Spis treści:
Foreword by Jane Hare
Contributors list
Chapter 1 Introduction to medicines management
Ruth Endacott
Chapter 2 Legal issues of medicines management
Richard Griffith
Chapter 3 Safety in medicines management
Elizabeth Payne
Chapter 4 Prescription of medicines
Elizabeth Payne
Chapter 5 Systems for medicines administration
Kate Roland and Ruth Endacott
Chapter 6 Principles of safe administration of
medicines
Dan Higgins
Chapter 7 Medication errors
Ruth Endacott
Chapter 8 Basic pharmacology of common medications
Gareth Walters
Chapter 9 Administration of oral medication
Brian Gammon and Dan Higgins
Chapter 10 Administration of injections
Janet Hunter
Ch apter 11 Administration of intravenous fluids and
medicines
Dan Higgins
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous routes of medication
administration
Matthew Aldridge
Chapter 13 Medicines management in children
Elizabeth Payne
Chapter 14 Nurse prescribing
Elizabeth Payne
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Philip Jevon, RN BSc(Hons) PGCE, is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK.
Elizabeth Payne, BSc(Hons) in Pharmacy, MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, MRPharmS, is Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Education, Training and Staff Performance, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK.
Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is Senior Charge Nurse Critical Care, University HospitalsBirmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Consultant/Honorary Lecturer Resuscitation Services UK and Visiting Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK.
Ruth Endacott is Professor of Clinical Nursing at the University of Plymouth, UK andLa Trobe University, Australia.

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The safe and effective management of medicines is an essential clinical skill, accounting for up to 40% of a nurse’s time within practice. Medicines Management provides nurses with a clear, concise and practical exploration of their role in pharmacology and medicines management. It explains what is meant by medicines management, discusses the current professional and legal context, and gives insight into the reasons why mistakes are made.
Focusing predominantly on the principles of safe drug administration, this pocket–sized text also explores legal and professional issues, medication errors, administration of oral medication, injections, and intravenous fluids and medicines, medication management in children, and basic pharmacology of common medications.In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses serie sCase studies and examples provided throughoutFocuses on safe medicines management in day–to–day clinical practiceAppendices with a glossary of terms and a list of abbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurementIncludes a chapter on paediatric considerations