Developing Your Prescribing Skills

✍ Scribed by Trudy Thomas

• Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intended to help practitioners and all new prescribers assess their current skills, recognise their skills gaps, identify ways of meeting their learning needs and be accountable for their prescribing, both as individuals and teams. Set in the context of 'real life' case scenarios, it takes a practical view of the main issues facing prescribers in all walks of practice. This book encourages the reader to apply the generic prescribing skills covered in each chapter to their own practice through the use of reflective exercises with feedback from experienced prescribers, suggested areas for further study, mind maps and top tips. Chapters offer information and advice on the following: taking a good history prioritising in polypharmacy consultations and prescribing in paediatrics monitoring prescribing ethical decision making in prescribing establishing partnerships with patients influences on prescribing Developing Your Prescribing Skills will be an invaluable resource for all new prescribers including junior doctors and GPs, and non-medical prescribers such as pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
About the editor......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 18
Historical origins of prescribing......Page 20
Prescribing today......Page 21
The prescribing canvas......Page 22
Safe prescribing......Page 23
Effective prescribing......Page 25
What this book is and isn't......Page 26
Introduction and learning outcomes......Page 27
Prescribing pitfalls and top tips......Page 28
References......Page 29
Further reading/websites of interest......Page 30
Prescriber......Page 31
Patient background......Page 32
Scenario......Page 34
Reflective questions......Page 36
Scenario conclusion......Page 42
Top tips......Page 43
Further reading/websites of interest......Page 44
Mind map......Page 45
Introduction......Page 46
Patient background......Page 47
Scenario......Page 49
Reflective questions......Page 50
Scenario conclusion......Page 56
Top tips......Page 57
Further reading/websites of interest......Page 58
Mind map......Page 59
Prescriber......Page 60
Patient background......Page 61
Reflective questions......Page 63
Top tips......Page 69
Further reading/websites of interest......Page 70
Mind map......Page 71
Introduction......Page 72
Patient background......Page 73
Reflective questions......Page 75
Scenario conclusion......Page 82
Top tips......Page 83
Further reading/websites of interest......Page 84
Mind map......Page 85
Introduction......Page 86
Patient background......Page 87
Reflective questions......Page 88
Top tips......Page 94
References......Page 95
Mind map......Page 96
Introduction......Page 97
Patient background......Page 98
Scenario......Page 101
Reflective questions......Page 102
Scenario conclusion......Page 109
Prescribing pitfalls......Page 110
References......Page 111
Mind map......Page 112
Introduction......Page 113
Patient background......Page 114
Scenario......Page 116
Reflective questions......Page 118
Two days later......Page 122
Two weeks later......Page 123
Top tips......Page 124
References......Page 125
Mind map......Page 126
Prescriber......Page 127
Patient background......Page 128
Scenario......Page 131
Reflective questions......Page 134
Scenario conclusion......Page 136
Prescribing pitfalls......Page 137
References......Page 138
Mind map......Page 139
Introduction......Page 140
Patient background......Page 141
Scenario......Page 143
Reflective questions......Page 144
Scenario conclusion......Page 149
Prescribing pitfalls......Page 150
References......Page 151
Mind map......Page 152
Prescriber......Page 153
Patient background......Page 154
Scenario......Page 156
Reflective questions......Page 157
Triggers......Page 158
The patient’s perspective......Page 160
Reflective questions......Page 161
Scenario conclusion......Page 162
Top tips......Page 163
Web-portals......Page 164
Mind map......Page 165
12 - Conclusion......Page 166
Index......Page 168