Independent and Supplementary Prescribing: An Essential Guide - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0521674646 ISBN 13: 9780521674645

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Riassunto

Prescribing and medicines management is one of the most common interventions in health care delivery and in the future will become part of the role of many thousands of nurses, pharmacists and other professions allied to medicine (PAMs). Independent and Supplementary Prescribing: An Essential Guide, is the first book of its kind and explores a number of key areas for prescribers, including the ethical and legal issues surrounding prescribing, the psychology and sociology of prescribing, prescribing within a public health context, evidence-based prescribing, prescribing within a team context, basic pharmacology, monitoring skills and drug calculations. Each of these topics is written by a recognised expert in the field and will provide readers with the theoretical underpinning upon which safe and effective prescribing is based. This book is essential reading for nurses, pharmacists and other professions allied to medicine that will soon have the power to prescribe.

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Descrizione del libro:

Prescribing medicines is one of the most common interventions in health care delivery and it will become part of the role of nurses, pharmacists and other professions allied to medicine. This book is essential reading for these groups that will soon have the power to prescribe.

Contenuti:

1. Prescribing: past, present and future; 2. Models of consultation; 3. Prescribing in a multidisciplinary team context; 4. Legal aspects of independent and supplementary prescribing; 5. Ethical issues in independent and supplementary prescribing; 6. Applied pharmacology; 7. Sociology and psychology of prescribing; 8. Monitoring skills; 9. Evidence-based prescribing; 10. Public health perspectives on extended supplementary prescribing; 11. Concordance; 12. Calculations.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521674646
• ISBN 13: 9780521674645
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Redattore: Courtenay Molly, Griffiths Matt