Independent and Supplementary Prescribing: An Essential Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521674646 ISBN 13: 9780521674645

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

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.

About the Author

Molly Courtenay is Professor, Division of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Surrey University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521674646
• ISBN 13: 9780521674645
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Courtenay Molly, Griffiths Matt