title: Mentoring students in medicines management.
abstract: Medicines management is an important part of the nurse's role. It covers elements such as cost-effectiveness, patient advice, infection control, optimising benefits from medicines, emerging technological developments, and drug administration and storage. The aim of this article is to enable mentors to support pre-registration nursing students to develop specific proficiencies in medicines management. The focus will be on applying pharmacological knowledge to practice, communicating patient information and avoiding medicine administration errors.
authors.affiliation: School of Healthcare, University of Leeds. m.m.murphy@leeds.ac.uk
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D054796:Drug Dosage Calculations; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D004506:Education, Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008611:Mentors; D006113:United Kingdom