Medicines Management in Adult Nursing
Liz Lawson
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Description for Medicines Management in Adult Nursing
Paperback. This book helps adult nursing students to understand and apply the principles of medicines management to provide safe care to their patients. Series: Transforming Nursing Practice Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: MQCM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 354.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Transforming Nursing Practice Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844458424
SKU
V9781844458424
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Liz Lawson
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. Dawn Hennefer is a Registered nurse and lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Salford with a background in teaching physiology, ... Read more
Reviews for Medicines Management in Adult Nursing
′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