The first medicines management textbook for trainee nursing associates!
Effectively managing and administering medicines is a core responsibility for all nursing associates. This book covers everything a trainee nursing associate needs to master, from understanding the fundamental legal and professional requirements to developing essential drug calculations skills. This often-overwhelming subject is broken down into manageable chunks, with students taken step-by-step through the theory before practicing what they’ve learnt with the help of insightful case studies and activities.
Key features:
- Written specifically to address the unique experiences, challenges and requirements of the nursing associate role and fully mapped to the NMC standards of proficiency (2018).
- Activities help trainees get to grips with the key skills and responsibilities of the role and allow them to practice calculations.
- Wide-ranging case studies cover all fields and a variety of clinical settings to show how this knowledge applies to practice.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Understanding Nursing Associate Practice series (UNAP) is a new collection of books uniquely designed to support trainee nursing associates throughout their training and into a professional career.
Tabla de materias
Chapter 1: Legal and professional considerations for medicines management
Chapter 2: The human body, ageing and the disease process
Chapter 3: Principles of pharmacology
Chapter 4: Safe medicine administration
Chapter 5: Numeracy skills for drug calculations
Chapter 6: Medication management in the modern age
Chapter 7: Case studies: applying principles to practice
Sobre el autor
Miriam Davies is a lecturer at the University of Salford within the School of Health & Society. She has an adult nursing background within the fields of surgery and oncology. She later specialised in public health, working as a health visitor and continues to practise in this field. Her particular areas of clinical interest include child development, health promotion, medicines management and health technology. Miriam primarily teaches pre-registration nursing as well as having involvement in postgraduate programmes such as specialist community public health and non-medical prescribing. She has been actively involved with university research projects as well as curriculum design and planning for both nursing associate and pre-registration nursing programmes.