Description
Developing Your Prescribing Skills helps healthcare professionals to assess their current skills, and recognise their skills gaps. Using 'real life' case scenarios, this book takes a practical view of the main issues facing prescribers. Readers can 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:
- 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.
