Nurse prescribing : principles and practice / Molly Courtenay, Michele Butler.

By: Courtenay, MollyContributor(s): Butler, MicheleMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Greenwich Medical Media, 1999Description: viii, 142 p : ill. 20 cmContent type: 36 ISBN: 0511043430 (electronic bk.); 9781841100074; 0585303835 (electronic bk.); 9780585303833 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Nurses -- Prescription privileges | Drugs -- Prescribing | NursingGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610.73069 LOC classification: RM125 | .C68 1999Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
Ch. 1. Legal and professional aspects of nurse prescribing -- Ch. 2. Basic pharmacology -- Ch. 3. Laxative and rectal preparations -- Ch. 4. Preparations for skin conditions -- Ch. 5. Oral analgesics -- Ch. 6. Anthelmintics and insecticides -- Ch. 7. Wound dressings -- Ch. 8. Catheter management preparations -- Ch. 9. Oral and ear preparations -- Ch. 10. Elastic hosiery -- Ch. .11. Folic acid -- App. 2. List of products in the NPF
Summary: "Nurses working within the expanded role of prescriber will frequently be faced with prescribing decisions. This text provides easily accessible information upon which to base these decisions, ensuring safe and effective prescribing practices. Each chapter examines the different groups of preparations listed in the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary (NPF). Information including product dosage, contraindications, side-effects, drug interactions and specific nursing points is presented in detail. This text is unique, however, in that the reader is also provided with key background information from the relevant life sciences, as it .applies to modern clinical practice."--BOOK JACKET
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.Includes index

Ch. 1. Legal and professional aspects of nurse prescribing -- Ch. 2. Basic pharmacology -- Ch. 3. Laxative and rectal preparations -- Ch. 4. Preparations for skin conditions -- Ch. 5. Oral analgesics -- Ch. 6. Anthelmintics and insecticides -- Ch. 7. Wound dressings -- Ch. 8. Catheter management preparations -- Ch. 9. Oral and ear preparations -- Ch. 10. Elastic hosiery -- Ch.
.11. Folic acid -- App. 2. List of products in the NPF

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"Nurses working within the expanded role of prescriber will frequently be faced with prescribing decisions. This text provides easily accessible information upon which to base these decisions, ensuring safe and effective prescribing practices. Each chapter examines the different groups of preparations listed in the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary (NPF). Information including product dosage, contraindications, side-effects, drug interactions and specific nursing points is presented in detail. This text is unique, however, in that the reader is also provided with key background information from the relevant life sciences, as it
.applies to modern clinical practice."--BOOK JACKET

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