Description
Anxious about managing medicines? Worried you’ll make a mistake? This handy book is an essential guide for all nursing students, enabling you to understand the theory and practice of drug administration and facilitate your confidence and competence.
This essential guide explores the theory and practice of drug administration briefly and coherently, with ‘test your knowledge’ exercises and questions throughout to assess your learning. It also includes ‘words of wisdom’- tips from real life students from their own experiences. Ideal for carrying to clinical placements, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses is an essential guide to drugs and medicine administration.
Special features:
- Pocket sized for portability- Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
- Takes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, making it approachable, easy and fun
- Features tips and advice from real life nursing students
- Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
- Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare examples
Table of Contents
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 Nebulisers 127
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 Your Knowledge” 227
Appendix 1: Specific Competencies: “Medicines Management” 243
Appendix 2: A Typical Prescription Chart 253
Bibliography 259
Index 263
