Independent and Supplementary Prescribing: An Essential Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110892851X ISBN 13: 9781108928519

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Written by a group of multi-professional authors, this fully updated third edition builds on the success of this classic text. The book explores a number of key areas for prescribers, including prescribing within a multidisciplinary team context, consultation skills, ethical and legal issues surrounding prescribing, the psychology and sociology of prescribing, and applied pharmacology. Among the other topics featured are monitoring skills, medicines concordance, evidence based prescribing, prescribing within a public health perspective, calculation skills, prescribing in dermatology, and minimizing the risk of prescribing errors. Each chapter has been revised and additional chapters on antimicrobial prescribing, education and training to become a prescriber, and a new section on renal impairment have been added. This book is an essential resource for both new and experienced prescribers and anyone undertaking the non-medical prescribing (NMP) programme including nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and optometrists.

About this title

About the Authors

Molly Courtenay is a Professor of Health Sciences at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales.

Matt Griffiths previously a Nurse Practitioner and prescriber, now works as a Quality Improvement Nurse at the Royal United Hospital NHS Trust in Bath, and is also a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and an Independent Nurse Consultant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110892851X
• ISBN 13: 9781108928519
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Courtenay Molly