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 INDICE: PREFACE INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THE 24–HOUR CLOCK 1 DRUG ADMINISTRATION: GENERAL PRINCIPLES 2 PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS 3 DRUGS AND MEDICINES 4 ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION 5 ADMINISTRATION OF INJECTIONS 6 CALCULATIONS FOR WORKING OUT DOSAGES 7 ADMINISTRATION OF RECTAL AND VAGINAL PREPARATIONS 8 ADMINISTRATION OF TOPICAL PREPARATIONS 9 ADMINISTRATION OF INHALATION MEDICATIONS AND NEBULISERS 10 ADMINISTRATION OF INTRAVENOUS FLUIDS 11 ADMINISTRATION OF INTRAVENOUS BOLUS MEDICATIONS 12 ADMINISTRATION OF CONTINUOUS INTRAVENOUS INFUSIONS 13 ADMINISTRATION VIA PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC JEJUNOSTOMY OR NASOGASTRIC TUBE 14 DRUGS AND SPECIFIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS 15 PAIN MANAGEMENT 16 KNOWLEDGE TEST ANSWERS TO ACTIVITIES, QUESTIONS AND “TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE” APPENDIX 1: SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: MEDICINES MANAGEMENT APPENDIX 2: A TYPICAL PRESCRIPTION CHART BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
- ISBN: 978-1-118-44885-4
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 278
- Fecha Publicación: 12/04/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés