Pharmacology for Nurses and Other Health Workers

One of the many important roles nurses play is to handle and administer drugs of all schedules to patients under their care and to monitor their response to the drugs. The assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation by the nurse ensures that patients benefit optimally from the relevant drug therapy. This edition has been updated to meet the requirement of the new nursing curriculum and also to bring nurses up to speed with the latest developments in drug therapy. Patient education regarding the use of drugs, which is central in ensuring compliance, has been given more attention in this new edition.