What is it about?
Managing medications is an important part of the nurse's role and understanding how medications works is pivotal to this. It remains unclear regarding what mix of pharmacology information is required to ensure optimal practice. This paper examines the perspectives of nurse prescribers, qualified nurses and student nurses to elucidate what information they think should be included in nurse education.
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Why is it important?
Pharmacology has been a challenging subject to deliver to nursing students, with many sessions labelled as pharmacology only addressing medication management. As the role and responsibility of the nurse expands a more detailed understanding of drug action and pharmacokinetic principles is required to ensure safe practice. The findings of this study highlights this fact and reiterates the need for a structured and system based approach to pharmacology education in nursing.
Perspectives
Be able to contribute to our understanding of biological science education in nursing is an honour and a significant driver in my everyday academic life. Pharmacology education is more relevant to practice than ever before. Being able to generate academic research to understand the best way to undertake this, is a significant opportunity to academically influence nursing practice and patient safety.
Ehsan Khan
King's College London
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This page is a summary of: Nurses' perspectives on pharmacology: why, what and at which point of the curricula should education be delivered?, British Journal of Nursing, May 2018, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2018.27.10.546.
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