Boyd Medicine Management Skills for Nurses

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-44888-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Student Survival Skills

Anxious about managing medicines? Worried you'll make amistake? This handy book is an essential guide for all nursingstudents, enabling you to understand the theory and practice ofdrug administration and facilitate your confidence andcompetence.
This essential guide explores the theory and practice of drugadministration briefly and coherently, with 'test yourknowledge' exercises and questions throughout to assess yourlearning. It also includes 'words of wisdom'- tips fromreal life students from their own experiences. Ideal for carryingto clinical placements, Medicine Management Skills forNurses is an essential guide to drugs andmedicine administration.
Special features:- Pocket sized for portability
- Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
- Takes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, makingit approachable, easy and fun
- Features tips and advice from real life nursing students
- Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education andthe Essential Skills Clusters
- Examples and questions based on real life nursing andhealthcare examples

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Claire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 NEBULISERS127
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 YOURKNOWLEDGE" 227
APPENDIX 1: SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: "MEDICINESMANAGEMENT" 243
APPENDIX 2: A TYPICAL PRESCRIPTION CHART 253
BIBLIOGRAPHY 259
INDEX 263

Über Autor(innen)

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