Rapid Medicines Management For Healthcare Professionals

Rapid Medicines Management for Nurses provides nursing students and frontline nursing staff with an easy to use reference source to facilitate the safe and effective use of medicines in clinical practice. It covers a range of fundamental principles related to drug action, administration and monitoring, as well as sections on specific, commonly prescribed drugs and how they are used in practice. The aim is to deliver essential information in a way which is accessible and useful to practitioners whilst undertaking their daily roles. It is written to address all aspects of managing medicines encountered in nursing practice. The book is applicable to areas of practice regardless of setting (both primary and secondary care are considered) and the contents are applicable across fields of practice, as well as being a useful addition to standard reference sources such as the BNF. A book of this type, aimed at this audience, is not currently available in the proposed format.

Divided into four broad sections, the first describes and explores the principles of clinical pharmacology, namely pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Section two considers medicine formulation, routes of administration and monitoring requirements associated with drug therapy; section three outlines details of commonly used drugs (based on UK prescribing data); and the final section covers topics such as evidence based medicine, the theory and classification of adverse effects and way to report and manage them.

Supplemented by a glossary and further resources to aid understanding, Rapid Medicines Management for Nurses is the perfect quick-reference book for student nurses and qualified healthcare professionals to support them in their work in clinical practice, and enable them to deliver the best possible care.