Pharmacology and Medicines Management for Nurses Text and Evolve eBooks Package

This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book, plus acces to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of nursing e-books. An understanding of medicines and their effects on patients remains a crucial area of nursing knowledge. This book provides a thorough foundation upon which nurses can build their clinical experience to achieve competence. It not only provides information on the actions of drugs on the body but also gives clear guidance on the practical aspects of medicines management in both hospital and community. Organisation of the text broadly follows the British National Formulary for ease of use. This unique approach of combining clinical pharmacology, medicines management and the provision of practice advice will be invaluable to pre-registration students at both degree and diploma level as well as registered nurses in practice and nurses returning to practice after a career break.Management of medicines linked to their therapeutic useMedicine administration linked with relevant care of patients where possibleBasic principles of clinical pharmacology underpin the therapeutic chaptersA chapter on the role of patients and carers is includedAll content revised in the light of changes in drug therapy, clinical practice and medicines management including nurse prescribingKey objectives for each chapterSelf-assessment exercises with answersMore detail relating to palliative care; nurse prescribingA new section on Intensive TherapyTotally redesigned in two colours with improved design and page layout, and better illustrations