Medicines Management

Description

The safe and effective management of medicines is an essential clinical skill, accounting for up to 40% of a nurse’s time within practice. Medicines Management provides nurses with a clear, concise and practical exploration of their role in pharmacology and medicines management. It explains what is meant by medicines management, discusses the current professional and legal context, and gives insight into the reasons why mistakes are made.
Focusing predominantly on the principles of safe drug administration, this pocket-sized text also explores legal and professional issues, medication errors, administration of oral medication, injections, and intravenous fluids and medicines, medication management in children, and basic pharmacology of common medications.

• In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses series
• Case studies and examples provided throughout
• Focuses on safe medicines management in day-to-day clinical practice
• Appendices with a glossary of terms and a list of abbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurement
• Includes a chapter on paediatric considerations

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jane Hare
Contributors list

• Chapter 1 Introduction to medicines management
  Ruth Endacott
• Chapter 2 Legal issues of medicines management
  Richard Griffith
• Chapter 3 Safety in medicines management
  Elizabeth Payne
• Chapter 4 Prescription of medicines
  Elizabeth Payne
• Chapter 5 Systems for medicines administration
  Kate Roland and Ruth Endacott
• Chapter 6 Principles of safe administration of medicines
  Dan Higgins
• Chapter 7 Medication errors
  Ruth Endacott
• Chapter 8 Basic pharmacology of common medications
  Gareth Walters
• Chapter 9 Administration of oral medication
  Brian Gammon and Dan Higgins
• Chapter 10 Administration of injections
  Janet Hunter
• Chapter 11 Administration of intravenous fluids and medicines
  Dan Higgins
• Chapter 12 Miscellaneous routes of medication administration
  Matthew Aldridge
• Chapter 13 Medicines management in children
  Elizabeth Payne
• Chapter 14 Nurse prescribing
  Elizabeth Payne

Index

Author Information

Philip Jevon, RN BSc(Hons) PGCE, is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK.

Elizabeth Payne, BSc(Hons) in Pharmacy, MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, MRPharmS, is Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Education, Training and Staff Performance, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK.

Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is Senior Charge Nurse Critical Care, University HospitalsBirmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Consultant/Honorary Lecturer Resuscitation Services UK and Visiting Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK.

Ruth Endacott is Professor of Clinical Nursing at the University of Plymouth, UK andLa Trobe University, Australia.