Medicine Management Skills for Nurses
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Anxious about managing medicines? Worried you ll make a mistake? This handy book is an essential guide for all nursing students, enabling you to understand the theory and practice of drug administration and facilitate your confidence and competence. This essential guide explores the theory and practice of drug administration briefly and coherently, with test your knowledge exercises and questions throughout to assess your learning. It also includes words of wisdom - tips from real life students from their own experiences. Ideal for carrying to clinical placements, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses is an essential guide to drugs and medicine administration. Special features: - Pocket sized for portability - Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free - Takes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, making it approachable, easy and fun - Features tips and advice from real life nursing students - Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters - Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare examples
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Product details
- Paperback | 278 pages
- 138 x 210 x 15mm | 426g
- 06 May 2013
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- New York, United States
- English
- colour illustrations,strationsstrations
- 1118448855
- 9781118448854
- 588,975
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Survive managing drug administration with this essential guidefor all student nurses.
Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life studentnurses, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses enables you tounderstand the theory and practice of drug administration -boosting your confidence and competence in this core area ofnursing practice.
Special features
Developed by students for studentsClear, straightforward and jargon-freeTakes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, makingit approachable, easy and funFeatures tips and advice from real-life nursing studentsTies in with the NMC standards for pre-registration educationand the Essential Skills ClustersExamples and questions based on real-life nursing andhealthcare situations
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Providing words of wisdom and advice from real-life studentnurses, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses enables you tounderstand the theory and practice of drug administration -boosting your confidence and competence in this core area ofnursing practice.
Special features
Developed by students for studentsClear, straightforward and jargon-freeTakes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, makingit approachable, easy and funFeatures tips and advice from real-life nursing studentsTies in with the NMC standards for pre-registration educationand the Essential Skills ClustersExamples and questions based on real-life nursing andhealthcare situations
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Table of contents
PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi THE 24-HOUR CLOCK xii 1 DRUG ADMINISTRATION: GENERAL PRINCIPLES 1 2 PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS 19 3 DRUGS AND MEDICINES 35 4 ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION 47 5 ADMINISTRATION OF INJECTIONS 65 6 CALCULATIONS FOR WORKING OUT DOSAGES 83 7 ADMINISTRATION OF RECTAL AND VAGINAL PREPARATIONS 99 8 ADMINISTRATION OF TOPICAL PREPARATIONS 111 9 ADMINISTRATION OF INHALATION MEDICATIONS AND NEBULISERS 127 10 ADMINISTRATION OF INTRAVENOUS FLUIDS 141 11 ADMINISTRATION OF INTRAVENOUS BOLUS MEDICATIONS 159 12 ADMINISTRATION OF CONTINUOUS INTRAVENOUS INFUSIONS 169 13 ADMINISTRATION VIA PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC JEJUNOSTOMY OR NASOGASTRIC TUBE 177 14 DRUGS AND SPECIFIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS 191 15 PAIN MANAGEMENT 203 16 KNOWLEDGE TEST 219 ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 227 APPENDIX 1: SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: MEDICINES MANAGEMENT 243 APPENDIX 2: A TYPICAL PRESCRIPTION CHART 253 BIBLIOGRAPHY 259 INDEX 263
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Overall, it provides good commentary on a range of themes pertaining to medicines management for nursing students. (Primary Health Care, 1 October 2013)
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About Claire Boyd
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire Boyd is a Practice Development Trainer at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.
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