Find information resources about dementia including key resources, books, and journal articles. This guide is for RCN members including nursing students, nursing support workers, and registered nurses.

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Key Resources Books Journals

Key Resources

BNF for children

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Medicines for children: Information for parents and carers about giving medicines to their child.

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Specialist Pharmacy Service: Children's medicines: resources to support clinical decisions.

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Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2021) A competency framework for all prescribers. London: RPS.

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Clinical resources on RCN Learn

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We would like to thank the RCN CYP Acute and Emergency Care member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Books

Barber P and Robertson D (2020) Essentials of pharmacology for nurses. 4th edn. London, England: McGraw Hill.

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Bruce E, Williss J and Gibson F (eds.) (2023) The Great Ormond Street Hospital manual of children's nursing practices. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Donaldson M, Gregory J, Van-Vliet G and Wolfsdorf J (2019) Practical endocrinology and diabetes in children. 4th edn. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.

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Lapham R (2021) Drug calculations for nurses: a step-by-step approach. 5th edn. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

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Martyn J-A, Carey M C, Gatford J D and Phillips N (2023) Gatford and Phillips' drug calculations. 10th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier

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Peate I and Dryden P (2022) Fundamentals of pharmacology for children's nurses. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

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Price J and McAlinden O (2024) (eds.) Essentials of nursing children and young people. London: SAGE.

• Chapter 4 covers medication: management, administration and compliance.
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Young S and Pitcher B (2016) Medicines management for nurses at a glance. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.

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Book subject searches

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• Children and diabetes

Journal articles

Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.

• Children and asthma medicines
• Children and diabetes medicines

Journals

Journals of interest for children and young people medicines optimisation. Use these links to see details of availability.

• Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology
• BMC Pediatrics
• Journal of Child Health Care
• Nursing Children and Younger People
• World Allergy Organization Journal