The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations.
Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.
Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.
Everything you need to know about Independent and Supplementary Prescribing at a Glance!
Independent and Supplementary Prescribing At a Glance is an accessible and practical resource for healthcare students looking to become independent and supplementary prescribers. Each part of the book is mapped against a recognised prescribing framework published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) for all Registered Healthcare Professionals, and addresses NMC and HCPC regulatory body requirements. The text presents full-colour images, a user-friendly approach to key prescribing topics, and a structure that allows readers to dip-in and out as needed, appealing to a variety of learning styles.
Topics include:
- Professional, legal, and ethical prescribing considerations; independent and supplementary prescribing; critical thinking and clinical reasoning; exploring interventions and differential diagnosis
- Non-pharmacological approaches and pharmacological treatment options; prescribing reference guides, medication selection and how to prescribe
- Holistic assessment, quality of life, and evidence-based practice; public health, infection prevention and control; consultation models and principles of history taking and physical examination skills
- Building relationships, inclusive prescribing and informed choices; medicine optimisation, adverse reactions, and prescribing generic products
Independent and Supplementary Prescribing At a Glance is a comprehensive and complete learning and study resource for Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Physician Associates and Healthcare Professionals who want to become independent prescribers within the UK. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind.
This new edition is also available as an e-book.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface x
Part 1 Prescribing 1
1 Scope of Practice NMP 2
2 Professional, legal, and ethical issues 4
3 Independent and supplementary prescribing 6
4 Community practitioner nurse prescriber (V150/V100) 8
5 Critical thinking and clinical reasoning 10
6 Exploring interventions 12
7 Evidence-based diagnosis 14
8 Referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team 16
9 Clinical management plans 18
Part 2 Consideration of non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions 21
10 Non-pharmacological approaches 22
11 Pharmacological treatment options 24
12 Prescribing reference guides 26
13 Medication selection 28
14 How to prescribe 30
15 Risk benefit assessment 32
16 Pharmacodynamics 34
17 Pharmacokinetics 36
18 Holistic assessment 38
19 Quality of life 40
20 Evidence-based practice 42
21 Medicines and public health 44
22 Infection prevention and control 46
Part 3 Advanced history taking and examination 49
23 Consultation models 50
24 Principles of history taking and physical examination skills 52
25 Preparation for objective structured clinical examination 54
26 History taking for patients who lack mental capacity 58
27 Prescribing and the mental capacity act 60
28 Skin history taking and physical examination 62
29 Neurological history taking and physical examination 64
30 Head, ears, eyes, nose, and throat 66
31 Lymph node assessment 68
32 Endocrine history taking and physical examination 70
33 Respiratory 72
34 Cardiovascular history taking and physical examination 74
35 Abdominal history taking and physical examination for non-medical prescribers 76
36 Genitourinary system history taking and physical examination 78
37 Musculoskeletal history taking and physical examination 80
Part 4 Shared Decision-making 83
38 Equality, diversity, and inclusion 84
39 Concordance 86
40 Building relationships 88
41 Inclusive prescribing and informed choices 90
42 Medicine's optimisation 92
43 Social prescribing 94
Part 5 Prescribing Practice 97
44 Adverse drug reactions 98
45 Frameworks and guidelines 100
46 Prescribing generic products 102
47 Medication calculations 104
48 Non-medical authorisation of blood components 106
49 Electronic prescribing 108
Part 6 Patient education and health promotion 111
50 Unlicensed medicines 112
51 Record-keeping and data management 114
52 Adherence 116
53 Patients recognising deterioration 118
54 Patients' responsibility and self-management 120
References 122
Index 129
