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Medicine Management Skills for Nurses

ISBN: 978-1-118-44888-5

April 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

280 pages

Description

Anxious about managing medicines? Worried you’ll make a mistake? This handy book is an essential guide for all nursing students, enabling you to understand the theory and practice of drug administration and facilitate your confidence and competence.

This essential guide explores the theory and practice of drug administration briefly and coherently, with ‘test your knowledge’ exercises and questions throughout to assess your learning. It also includes ‘words of wisdom’- tips from real life students from their own experiences. Ideal for carrying to clinical placements, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses is an essential guide to drugs and medicine administration.

Special features:

- Pocket sized for portability
- Clear, straightforward, and jargon-free
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Takes away the fear of drugs and medicines management, making it approachable, easy and fun
- Features tips and advice from real life nursing students
- Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
- Examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare examples
About the Author

Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes, and organises the transition training program for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas.

Features
  • One of the first titles in the brand new Student Survival Skills series, an accessible, quick-reference series for nurses
  • A concise, pocket-sized companion to the subject of medicines management and drug administration, aimed at student nurses, assistant practitioners, and newly qualified registered nurses
  • Perfect for use in the classroom or on clinical placements
  • Developed by students for students: tips, advice and words of wisdom from real-life students included throughout
  • Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters
  • Includes activities for the reader throughout to test understanding