Introducing Medicines Management

Medicine administration is a fundamental aspect of the nursing role, carrying with it great risk and requiring a high level of skill and background knowledge. This student-friendly text will take you through the basic concepts of medicines management to the essential skills needed in practice.

Introducing Medicines Management provides an awareness of the inter-relationship between the patient, the medicine and the prescription as a fundamental systems approach, and will help you to understand how this is related to medicines management.

Introducing Medicines Management comprehensively covers

• the role of the nurse,
• safe processes,
• monitoring and reporting,
• drug storage and related issues

Sherri Ogston-Tuck is a Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.