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Medicine Management Skills for Nurses Claire Boyd

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses By Claire Boyd

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses by Claire Boyd


£11.50
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

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.

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses Summary

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses by Claire Boyd

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

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses Reviews

Overall, it provides good commentary on a range of themes pertaining to medicines management for nursing students. (Primary Health Care, 1 October 2013)

About Claire Boyd

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Claire Boyd is a Practice Development Trainer at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.

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

Additional information

GOR005735300
9781118448854
1118448855
Medicine Management Skills for Nurses by Claire Boyd
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2013-04-12
278
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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