Medicines Management

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 series Case studies and examples provided throughout Focuses on safe medicines management in day-to-day clinical practice Appendices with a glossary of terms and a list of abbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurement Includes a chapter on paediatric considerations

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 medicinesmedication 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

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.