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Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses Stanley Mutsatsa

Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses By Stanley Mutsatsa

Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses by Stanley Mutsatsa


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This new edition has been updated in-line with the latestNMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses and continues to provide nursing students with guidance on how to manage medicines safely and effectively when treating patients with mental health conditions.

Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses Summary

Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses by Stanley Mutsatsa

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.

About Stanley Mutsatsa

Stan Mutsatsa was aSenior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing atCity University London.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NPB9781526473615
9781526473615
1526473615
Mental Health Medicines Management for Nurses by Stanley Mutsatsa
New
Hardback
Sage Publications Ltd
2021-03-25
400
N/A
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