Pass the Psa

Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.This latest edition:

• Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing (the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic)
• Specifies the universal basic principles of prescribing for all sections
• Examines each section's question structure and how to approach it
• questions (structured identically to the exam) that conclude each chapter
• Covers all scenarios suggested for questioning in the PSA blueprint
• Highlights common traps throughout
• Contains two mock exams
• Includes finals-level sections on data interpretation and management

List of contents

1 Basic principles of prescribing
2 Prescription review: A foolproof plan
3 Data interpretation
4 Planning management
5 Communicating information
6 Calculation skills
7 Prescribing: Doing it yourself
8 Drug monitoring
9 Adverse drug reactions
10 Mock examinations

Product details

• Authors: Will Brown, Will (Academic Clinical Fellow Neurology Brown, William Brown, James Fisher, Kevin W Loudon, Laura B Marsland, Kevin W Loudon, Kevin W. Loudon, Laura B Marsland
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780702077692
• ISBN: 978-0-7020-7769-2
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 276 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 960 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Medical / Nursing, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Pharmacy / dispensing, Medical study, exam preparation and revision guides, Medical study & revision guides