ABSTRACT
Recommended pharmacology reading: It is important that you have an understanding of the pharmacology of medicines; this understanding includes how medicines work in the body (pharmacodynamics) and how medicines are absorbed into the body, distributed to body tissues, metabolised and excreted from the body (pharmacokinetics). There are pharmacology books available that are applied to nursing and healthcare practice, and you may find these helpful. Examples are as follows: • Greenstein, B. 2009. Trounce’s Clinical Pharmacology for Nurses, 18th edn.
