Towards Prescribing Practice

The variety and number of non-medical practitioners identified for
prescribing activity is growing rapidly. Across the country,
universities have validated prescribing programmes designed for
generic health care practice with a distance-learning component.

Towards Prescribing Practice offers readers a
comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of prescribing.
The subject matter relates to the government content standards for
study programmes and takes its cue from recent research in
prescribing and patient care in practice. This book embraces the
perennial core principles of prescribing practice, management and
leadership.

Content is organised to facilitate progressive learning, with
space allocated in each chapter to practice application through
discussion and exercises. The early inclusion of a section on
patient-centred planning and concordance enables the reader to
assimilate new knowledge within an individualised care approach.
The final three chapters are written from different clinical
perspectives: mental health, palliative care and emergency care,
providing assistance to specific areas of prescribing practice.

Autorentext

John McKinnon MSc PG Dip BA (Hons), RHV, RGN, RMN
John is a senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Lincoln, UK and the local academic lead for the government's widening participation initiative. He is a former programme leader for the nurse prescribing studies and was in the first wave of practitioners in the country to become nurse prescribers.

Klappentext
The variety and number of non-medical practitioners identified for prescribing activity is growing rapidly. Across the country, universities have validated prescribing programmes designed for generic health care practice with a distance-learning component. Towards Prescribing Practice offers readers a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of prescribing. The subject matter relates to the government content standards for study programmes and takes its cue from recent research in prescribing and patient care in practice. This book embraces the perennial core principles of prescribing practice, management and leadership.

Content is organised to facilitate progressive learning, with space allocated in each chapter to practice application through discussion and exercises. The early inclusion of a section on patient-centred planning and concordance enables the reader to assimilate new knowledge within an individualised care approach. The final three chapters are written from different clinical perspectives: mental health, palliative care and emergency care, providing assistance to specific areas of prescribing practice. The book includes:

• Colour illustrations to help the reader visualise pharmacological processes.

• Evidence-based and fully referenced chapters.
• Figures to illustrate theoretical frameworks.
• Case vignettes to punctuate the text, providing a practicum in which readers can reflect upon scenarios in clinical practice.
• Tables to provide learning exercises to help readers practise the roles of prescribing, such as cross-referencing the joint formulary.
• Expert clinical perspectives in key areas.
  Undergraduate prescribing students, Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Paramedics and Radiographers are among the practitioners who will find this book an invaluable resource.

Inhalt
List of contributors. Acknowledgements.

Chapter One: Understanding Basic Pharmacology (John McKinnon).

Chapter Two: Patient Centred Planning and Concordance (John McKinnon).

Chapter Three: The Application of Ethical Frameworks to Prescribing (John McKinnon).

Chapter Four: The Public Health Context (John McKinnon).

Chapter Five: Clinical Governance (Ruth Goldstein).

Chapter Six: Collaborative Working and Clinical Management Plans (John McKinnon).

Chapter Seven: Consultation and Decision Making (Clare Allen).

Chapter Eight: Legislation, Regulation and Accountability in Prescribing (Jo West).

Chapter Nine: The Palliative Care Perspective (Yvonne Hopkins and Linda Bray).

Chapter Ten: The Mental Health Perspective (Stuart Kennedy).

Chapter Eleven: The Emergency Care Perspective (Ian Loveday and Richard Pilbery).