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Pass the PSA. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • March 2020
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5349998
Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.

This latest edition:

  • Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing (the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic)
  • Specifies the universal basic principles of prescribing for all sections
  • Examines each section's question structure and how to approach it
  • questions (structured identically to the exam) that conclude each chapter
  • Covers all scenarios suggested for questioning in the PSA blueprint
  • Highlights common traps throughout
  • Contains two mock exams
  • Includes finals-level sections on data interpretation and management

Table of Contents

1 Basic principles of prescribing

2 Prescription review: A foolproof plan

3 Data interpretation

4 Planning management

5 Communicating information

6 Calculation skills

7 Prescribing: Doing it yourself

8 Drug monitoring

9 Adverse drug reactions

10 Mock examinations

Authors

William Brown Academic Clinical Fellow Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Kevin W Loudon Renal Registrar, East of England and ST3 Renal Medicine, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK. James Fisher Core Psychiatry Trainee, Central & North West London NHS Trust, London, UK. Laura B Marsland Previous Lead Pharmacist for Neuroscience, Stroke & Rehabilitation at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.