Medicines & Pharmacology

Student nurse in grey scrubs reviewing a controlled drug record with a registered nurse beside a locked medicines cupboard in a UK hospital.

Controlled Drugs for Student Nurses: What They ...

A practical UK teaching guide to controlled drugs for student nurses, explaining why they are controlled, the five schedules, common examples, storage, registers, administration, discrepancies and student scope.

Controlled Drugs for Student Nurses: What They ...

A practical UK teaching guide to controlled drugs for student nurses, explaining why they are controlled, the five schedules, common examples, storage, registers, administration, discrepancies and student scope.

Medical illustration of mast-cell histamine release and H1 receptor activity during an allergic reaction

Allergic Reactions and Antihistamines: Histamin...

Understand what actually happens during an IgE-mediated allergic reaction, how histamine and H1 receptors create symptoms, where antihistamines fit, and why IM adrenaline is first-line when a reaction becomes anaphylaxis....

Allergic Reactions and Antihistamines: Histamin...

Understand what actually happens during an IgE-mediated allergic reaction, how histamine and H1 receptors create symptoms, where antihistamines fit, and why IM adrenaline is first-line when a reaction becomes anaphylaxis....

Student nurse discussing a prescribed GLP-1 medicine with a patient

GLP-1 Medicines: What Is Hype and What Is Real?

What GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 medicines do, how UK access differs and the safety points students need to recognise.

GLP-1 Medicines: What Is Hype and What Is Real?

What GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 medicines do, how UK access differs and the safety points students need to recognise.

Student nurse learning the tissue targets for common injection routes

Injection Routes: Where Is the Medicine Actuall...

A practical look at intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous and intraosseous routes, with safe limits for student practice.

Injection Routes: Where Is the Medicine Actuall...

A practical look at intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous and intraosseous routes, with safe limits for student practice.

Student Nurse checking a medicine against the medication administration record before giving it to a patient.

The Rights of Medication Administration: Safe M...

The medication rights are useful checks, but safe administration also depends on clinical assessment, pharmacology, allergies, monitoring, documentation and the patient in front of you.

The Rights of Medication Administration: Safe M...

The medication rights are useful checks, but safe administration also depends on clinical assessment, pharmacology, allergies, monitoring, documentation and the patient in front of you.

Student nurse reviewing common medicine classes with a registered nurse in a hospital medicines room

10 Medicine Groups You Will Often Meet on Place...

A practical teaching guide to ten medicine groups student nurses commonly meet on placement, including indications, before administration checks, monitoring, high risk medicines, BNF use and escalation points.

10 Medicine Groups You Will Often Meet on Place...

A practical teaching guide to ten medicine groups student nurses commonly meet on placement, including indications, before administration checks, monitoring, high risk medicines, BNF use and escalation points.