Medicines management
Subtitle: a nursing perspective
By: Sandra Crouch, Carol Chapelhow, Michael Crouch (consultant pharmacist).
Contributors: Chapelhow, Carol.; Crouch, Michael.
Publisher: Pearson Education; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Harlow, England; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780132217347
Subjects: Pharmacology; Nursing; Drug Therapy -- nursing -- Great Britain; Drug Monitoring -- nursing -- Great Britain; Medication Errors -- prevention & control -- Great Britain; Nurse's Role -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The context of medicines management; title: How to use information about medicines; title: Applying knowledge and skills : approaches to learning; title: Underpinning pharmacological principles : pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics; title: Nursing implications and responsibilities; title: Complementary medicinal products; title: Cancer care; title: Older adults and medication; title: Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis; title: Coronary heart disease; title: Acute intestinal obstruction; title: Epilepsy; title: Alzheimer's disease, primary hypertension and constipation; title: Diabetes mellitus, depression and hypothyroidism; title: Asthma, eczema, pneumonia, and Down's syndrome; title: Contemporary issues relating to drug and medicine development; title: Contemporary issues in medicines management for nurses.