Practical prescribing for nurses : developing competency and skill /

Strickland-Hodge, Barry,

Practical prescribing for nurses : developing competency and skill / Barry Strickland-Hodge, Rebecca Dickinson, Helen Bradbury. - 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Chapter 1: The development of prescribing outside medicine and dentistry -- Chapter 2: Prescribing resources and competency frameworks -- Chapter 3: The consultation, diagnostic processes, differential diagnosis and influences on prescribing -- Chapter 4: Putting shared decision making into practice -- Chapter 5: Understanding patients’ medicines-related values, beliefs and expectations and safeguarding -- Chapter 6: An introduction to pharmacology and therapeutics and prescribing antimicrobials -- Chapter 7: Medicines requiring particular care when prescribing -- Chapter 8: Prescribing for particular patient groups -- Chapter 9: Adverse drug reactions and interactions -- Chapter 10: Prescription writing including risk of remote prescribing -- Chapter 11: Transition to prescriber and deprescribing.

An accessible and comprehensive guide preparing nurses to prescribe safely and effectively. Structured around the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and NMC frameworks. Covers policy, consultation skills, pharmacology, prescription writing, and more.

9781529603781


Nurse prescribing--Great Britain.
Drugs--Administration.
Pharmacology--Study and teaching.
Nursing--Standards.

617.5 / S.B.P