Philip Jevon & Liz Payne 
Medicines Management [PDF ebook] 
A Guide for Nurses

The safe and effective management of medicines is an essential
clinical skill, accounting for up to 40% of a nurse’s time
within practice. Medicines Management provides nurses with a
clear, concise and practical exploration of their role in
pharmacology and medicines management. It explains what is meant by
medicines management, discusses the current professional and legal
context, and gives insight into the reasons why mistakes are made.

Focusing predominantly on the principles of safe drug
administration, this pocket-sized text also explores legal and
professional issues, medication errors, administration of oral
medication, injections, and intravenous fluids and medicines,
medication management in children, and basic pharmacology of common
medications.

* In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses
series

* Case studies and examples provided throughout

* Focuses on safe medicines management in day-to-day clinical
practice

* Appendices with a glossary of terms and a list of
abbreviations (Latin and English), and units of measurement

* Includes a chapter on paediatric considerations

Tabla de materias

Foreword (Jane Hare).

Contributors list.

Chapter 1 Introduction to medicines management (Ruth
Endacott).

Chapter 2 Legal issues of medicines management (Richard
Griffith).

Chapter 3 Safety in medicines management (Elizabeth
Payne).

Chapter 4 Prescription of medicines (Elizabeth
Payne).

Chapter 5 Systems for medicines administration (Kate Roland
and Ruth Endacott).

Chapter 6 Principles of safe administration of medicines (Dan
Higgins).

Chapter 7 Medication errors (Ruth Endacott).

Chapter 8 Basic pharmacology of common medications (Gareth
Walters).

Chapter 9 Administration of oral medication (Brian Gammon and
Dan Higgins).

Chapter 10 Administration of injections (Janet
Hunter).

Chapter 11 Administration of intravenous fluids and medicines
(Dan Higgins).

Chapter 12 Miscellaneous routes of medication administration
(Matthew Aldridge).

Chapter 13 Medicines management in children (Elizabeth
Payne).

Chapter 14 Nurse prescribing (Elizabeth Payne).

Index.

Sobre el autor

Philip Jevon, RN BSc(Hons) PGCE, is Resuscitation
Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK; Honorary
Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK.

Elizabeth Payne, BSc(Hons) in Pharmacy, MSc in Clinical
Pharmacy, MRPharm S, is Deputy Director of Pharmacy, Education,
Training and Staff Performance, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK.

Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is Senior Charge
Nurse Critical Care, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation
Trust and Consultant/Honorary Lecturer Resuscitation Services UK
and Visiting Clinical Lecturer at University of Birmingham, UK.

Ruth Endacott is Professor of Clinical Nursing at the
University of Plymouth, UK and La Trobe University, Australia.