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Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses

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March 2021 | 400 pages | Learning Matters
Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses provides nursing students with guidance on how to manage medicines safely and effectively when treating patients with mental health conditions. It outlines how psychiatric drugs work, what the common treatments are, the ethical, legal, and person-centred aspects of working with psychiatric medicines, and how medicines can and should be used in mental health care. Using innovative activities and real-life case studies, this book has been carefully designed to be the ideal resource to build knowledge and confidence in this important area of practice.

Key features:
  • Updated in-line with the latest NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses.
  • Includes clear explanations of both the underlying biology and pharmacology as well as the wider practicalities of working with medicines.
  • Highlights the most common mental health conditions and associated treatments, including coverage of the possible side effects for all drugs described in the book.
  • NEW: Increased emphasis on prescribing with new content on consultation, history taking, and decision-making when prescribing.
  • NEW: Updated sections on ethics, consent, pharmacokinetics, antipsychotics, and adverse drug reactions.
 
Chapter 1: Legal and ethical aspects of medicines management in mental health
 
Chapter 2: The therapeutic alliance and the promotion of adherence to psychotropic medication
 
Chapter 3: Essential anatomy and physiology of the brain related to psychopharmacology
 
Chapter 4: Principles of pharmacology and medicine interactions
 
Chapter 5: Principles of prescribing and medicines administration
 
Chapter 6: Management and treatment of major depression
 
Chapter 7: Management and treatment of bipolar disorder
 
Chapter 8: Management and treatment of psychotic disorders
 
Chapter 9: Management and treatment of dementias
 
Chapter 10: Management and treatment of anxiety disorders
 
Chapter 11: Management and treatment of substance use disorders
 
Chapter 12: Adverse drug reactions and the management of medicine side effects

This is a fantastic book - that really helps our students prepare for practice

Mrs Maxine Cromar-Hayes
School of Health Sciences, Liverpool University
May 4, 2023

excellent personal reference book

Mrs Angela Rose Woodley
Nursing, University of the Highlands And Islands
August 23, 2022

This is a very useful book (now updated) and students found it helpful for their medicines management unit.

Miss Mel Webb
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bedfordshire University
May 19, 2022

Mental health focus but appropriate for all disciplines. Clear, easy to navigate and read

Mrs Nicola Chivers
Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University
July 6, 2022

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