cover image - A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702076589
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 10-15-2020
Page Count: 584
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $34.99

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice, 2nd Edition

by Ann Richards, BA(Hons), MSc DipN(Lon), RGN,RNT and Sharon L. Edwards, EdD SFHEA NTF MSc PGCEA DipN(Lon) RN

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cover image - A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702076589
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 10-15-2020
Page Count: 584
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $34.99
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Following the success of the previous edition, A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice has been completely updated with revised content written by expert practitioners and educators in the field of drug administration and pharmacology. It continues to follow the popular systems approach and is now revised with new sections on the immune system added.
    • The book provides the underpinning current knowledge required for professional judgement and safer medication management
    • This will be an invaluable resource for those studying prescribing courses as well as being useful for paramedics, student nurses and all qualified staff
    • A more detailed account of medication management, including drug errors and strategies to mitigate against them occurring, is included
    • The multidisciplinary nature of drug administration from the naming of drugs, through drug preparation, administration and outcome are taken into account

  • Section 1 Principles of pharmacology
    Section 2 Autonomic nervous system
    Section 3 Pain, analgesia and anaesthesia
    Section 4 Central nervous system
    Section 5 Cardiovascular system
    Section 6 Respiratory, renal and gastrointestinal systems
    Section 7 Endocrine system
    Section 8 Chemotherapy, antimicrobials and the immune system
    Section 9 Other areas of pharmacology

  • Ann Richards, BA(Hons), MSc DipN(Lon), RGN,RNT, Associate Lecturer, The Open University, UK and Sharon L. Edwards, EdD SFHEA NTF MSc PGCEA DipN(Lon) RN, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Buckinghamshire New University, Uxbridge, UK
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