This is a text for nursing and medical practitioners who are learning how to diagnose and treat mental disorders with medication. Skills-based, it focuses on key issues such as how to start and stop medication, how to dose and when to change medication.
Drawing on the author's considerable experience of training nursing and medical staff new to prescribing, Prescribing Mental Health Medication provides a comprehensive and supportive source of reference for the novice practitioners.
"Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for nursing and medical practitioners who are learning how to diagnose and treat mental disorders with medication. Skills-based, it focuses on the following key issues: how to start and stop medication, how to dose, when to change …
-Taking a good history. -Consultations and prescribing in paediatrics. -Ethical decision making in prescribing.
Developing your prescribing skills
Developing Your Prescribing Skills is intended to help practitioners and all new prescribers assess their current skills, recognise their skills gaps, identify ways of meeting their learning needs and be accountable for their prescribing, both as individuals and teams. Set in th…
Helping all new prescribers to assess their current skills, 'Developing Prescribing Skills' covers the essential topics of the field.
This second edition of Clinical Use of Anti-Infective Agents provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to using drugs to treat infections, including historical perspectives, definitions, and discussion of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and their uses. It inc…
Offering a handbook designed to help understand common drug families and interactions, this guide provides the latest information on more than 4000 generic and trade name drugs, along with the latest FDA-approved medications. Side-effects are organized by body system and identif…
This exceptional text builds your knowledge of pharmacology by first providing an overview of pharmacologic principles and then teaching you how to apply those principles to clinical practice. Focusing on applying pharmacologic scientific knowledge to clinical practice, it expla…
