Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Basic Pharmacology
- 2 Preparations for the Prevention and Treatment of Infection
- 3 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Nervous System
- 4 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Digestive System
- 5 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Respiratory System
- 6 Preparations for Minor Injuries and Minor Ailments of the Skin
- 7 Preparations for Minor Injuries of the Musculoskeletal System
- 8 Products and Preparations Affecting the Reproductive System
- 9 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Urinary System
- 10 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Sense Organs
- 11 Products and Preparations for Minor Ailments of the Circulatory System
- Index
Preface
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Basic Pharmacology
- 2 Preparations for the Prevention and Treatment of Infection
- 3 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Nervous System
- 4 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Digestive System
- 5 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Respiratory System
- 6 Preparations for Minor Injuries and Minor Ailments of the Skin
- 7 Preparations for Minor Injuries of the Musculoskeletal System
- 8 Products and Preparations Affecting the Reproductive System
- 9 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Urinary System
- 10 Preparations for Problems and Minor Ailments of the Sense Organs
- 11 Products and Preparations for Minor Ailments of the Circulatory System
- Index
Summary
Nurses working in 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 preparations available to nurses in the extended formulary and their effects on the human body. These preparations can be prescribed in the following four areas:
Minor ailments
Minor injuries
Health promotion
Palliative care
Information including product dosage, contraindications, adverse effects, drug interactions, and specific nursing points is presented in detail. This text adopts the same approach as Nurse Prescribing: Principles and Practice, written by the same authors, in that it provides key background information from the relevant life sciences, as it applies to modern clinical practice.
The authors have brought together widely available information in the form of a single, easy to use, practice based text, which, in conjunction with the NPF/BNF, Drug Tariff and manufacturers' product information sheets, provides an essential guide to nurse prescribing.
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- Essential Nurse Prescribing , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002