Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide
Author: Christopher M. Doran Manufacturer: Routledge Keywords: Pharmacy Drugs ISBN: 0415282225
Book description Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for nursing and medical practitioners who are learning how to diagnose and treat mental disorders with medication. Skills-based, it focuses on such key issues as: how to start and stop medication, how to dose, when to change medication, specific illnesses and their medications, special populations and conditions, the management of side effects, practical issues such as monitoring medication with blood levels, and administrative issues such as record-keeping.Special icons used throughout the text highlight clinical tips, advice on how to talk to patients and differences in practice in primary care settings. Based on the author's considerable…
Book review: Excellent practical guide Prescribing Mental Health Medication - The Practitioner's Guide provides essential, practical and accessible information on how to prescribe and manage psychiatric medication. The layout and format of… This concise, well written guide to prescribing mental health medication is as helpful to me, a Family Nurse Practitioner who works in a low-income community health center, as it would be to a… |
