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Written specifically for nursing students, this book introduces the principles and practice of pharmacology, explaining all aspects of how medicines work in clear, straightforward terms and using case studies to illustrate complex concepts through everyday nursing scenarios.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Scientific Principles and Concepts Applied to Pharmacology
Chapter 2: Routes of Drug Administration and Drug Absorption
Chapter 3: Drug Distribution
Chapter 4: Drug Metabolism
Chapter 5: Drug Excretion
Chapter 6: Principles of Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 7: Consolidation and Application of Pharmacological Concepts to Practice
About the author
Alison Buckley, a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Cumbria. She has a long history of leading and developing nursing curricula, with particular academic and professional interests in ethics, law, professional practice, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medicine optimisation and neurocritical care. Her research interests lie in the lived experience of disordered consciousness secondary to acquired brain injury, applied phenomenology and narrative inquiry. She currently takes a lead role in pre-registration nursing education and remains a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (UK).
Mark Magas is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Cumbria and Subject Lead for Pharmacology and Prescribing at the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine. Mark teaches pharmacology to undergraduate biomedical sciences students, and other healthcare professionals. He has had many years of experience teaching on post-graduate non-medical prescribing programmes in the past and is as currently working with the postgraduate medical school on pharmacology and prescribing. Mark is a Pharmacist, registered with the GPhC and a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science.
