Roulston / Davies Medicines Management for Nursing Associates

1. 1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5297-5178-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, WEB PDF, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Understanding Nursing Associate Practice

The first medicines management textbook for trainee nursing associates!

Effectively managing and administering medicines is a core responsibility for all Nursing Associates. To help you master these skills, this book covers everything you will need to know in medicines management, from understanding the fundamental legal and professional requirements, to developing essential drug calculations skills. By breaking down this often-overwhelming subject into manageable chunks, the book guides you through it all, step-by-step, with the help of insightful case studies and activities.

Key features:

- Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for nursing associates (2018)

- Activities and other learning features help you get to grips with the key skills

- Wide-ranging case studies covering all fields and environments show how this knowledge applies to your practice.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee Nursing Associates throughout their training and into a professional career.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roulston, Christina

Davies, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pharmakologie in der Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Legal and professional considerations for medicines management
Chapter 2: The human body, ageing and the disease process
Chapter 3: Principles of pharmacology
Chapter 4: Safe medicine administration
Chapter 5: Numeracy skills for drug calculations
Chapter 6: Medication management in the modern age
Chapter 7: Case studies: applying principles to practice

Über Autor(innen)

Davies, Miriam
Miriam Davies is a lecturer at the University of Salford within the School of Health & Society. She has an adult nursing background within the fields of surgery and oncology. She later specialised in public health, working as a health visitor and continues to practise in this field. Her particular areas of clinical interest include child development, health promotion, medicines management and health technology. Miriam primarily teaches pre-registration nursing as well as having involvement in postgraduate programmes such as specialist community public health and non-medical prescribing. She has been actively involved with university research projects as well as curriculum design and planning for both nursing associate and pre-registration nursing programmes.

Roulston, Christina
Christina Roulston is a lecturer on a number of pre-registration BN modules and module leader for medicine management for Trainee Nursing Associates on the foundation degree programme. As well as having 16 years of experience of registered general nursing in the UK she has undertaken a variety of teaching and clinical posts within British Forces Germany and Cyprus. In addition to experience in private health care she has undertaken posts in surgery, operating theatres, recovery, endoscopy and for British Forces in primary care posts.