Nurse prescribing principles and practice - Courtenay, Molly (Greenwich Medical Media, 1999)
Includes index
Ch. 1. Legal and professional aspects of nurse prescribing -- Ch. 2. Basic pharmacology -- Ch. 3. Laxative and rectal preparations -- Ch. 4. Preparations for skin conditions -- Ch. 5. Oral analgesics -- Ch. 6. Anthelmintics and insecticides -- Ch. 7. Wound dressings -- Ch. 8. Catheter management preparations -- Ch. 9. Oral and ear preparations -- Ch. 10. Elastic hosiery -- Ch. 11. Folic acid -- App. 2. List of products in the NPF.
"Nurses working within the expanded role of prescriber will frequently be faced with prescribing decisions. This text provides easily accessible information upon which to base these decisions, ensuring safe and effective prescribing practices. Each chapter examines the different groups of preparations listed in the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary (NPF). Information including product dosage, contraindications, side-effects, drug interactions and specific nursing points is presented in detail. This text is unique, however, in that the reader is also provided with key background information from the relevant life sciences, as it applies to modern clinical practice."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index