Practical Prescribing for Nurses
March 2024 | 240 pages | Sage UK
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Description

Preparing nurses for prescribing with a complete overview of the knowledge, theory and skills for safe and effective practice.

This accessible and engaging textbook covers the full spectrum of knowledge from the policy and legal aspects of working with medicines, through to the pharmacology of drugs as well as the practical skills required to make a diagnosis and work effectively with patients. It is structured around the Royal Pharmaceutical Society framework for all prescribers and the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. A complete resource that will ensure students are fully prepared and ready to prescribe.

Contents

Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry

Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry

Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks

Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks

Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing

Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing

Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice

Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice

Chapter 5: Understanding patients medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding

Chapter 5: Understanding patients medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding

Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials

Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials

Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing

Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing

Chapter 8: Prescribing for Particular Patient Groups

Chapter 8: Prescribing for Particular Patient Groups

Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions

Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions

Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing

Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing

Chapter 11: Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing

Chapter 11: Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing

Description

Preparing nurses for prescribing with a complete overview of the knowledge, theory and skills for safe and effective practice.

This accessible and engaging textbook covers the full spectrum of knowledge from the policy and legal aspects of working with medicines, through to the pharmacology of drugs as well as the practical skills required to make a diagnosis and work effectively with patients. It is structured around the Royal Pharmaceutical Society framework for all prescribers and the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. A complete resource that will ensure students are fully prepared and ready to prescribe.

Contents

Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry

Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry

Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks

Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks

Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing

Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing

Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice

Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice

Chapter 5: Understanding patients medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding

Chapter 5: Understanding patients medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding

Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials

Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials

Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing

Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing

Chapter 8: Prescribing for Particular Patient Groups

Chapter 8: Prescribing for Particular Patient Groups

Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions

Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions

Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing

Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing

Chapter 11: Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing

Chapter 11: Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing

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Practical Prescribing for Nurses

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March 2024 | 240 pages | Sage UK

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Preparing nurses for prescribing with a complete overview of the knowledge, theory and skills for safe and effective practice.

This accessible and engaging textbook covers the full spectrum of knowledge from the policy and legal aspects of working with medicines, through to the pharmacology of drugs as well as the practical skills required to make a diagnosis and work effectively with patients. It is structured around the Royal Pharmaceutical Society framework for all prescribers and the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. A complete resource that will ensure students are fully prepared and ready to prescribe.


Table Of Contents:

  • Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry
  • Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks
  • Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing
  • Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice
  • Chapter 5: Understanding patients medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding
  • Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials
  • Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing
  • Chapter 8: Prescribing for Particular Patient Groups
  • Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions
  • Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing
  • Chapter 11: Transition to Prescriber and Deprescribing

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