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Antipsychotic drugs in dementia: a best practice guide
This guide has been written by Deborah Sturdy, independent nurse consultant; Hazel Heath, independent nurse consultant for older people; Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer's Society; Professor Alistair Burns, national clinical director for dementia and professor of old age psychiatry at the University of Manchester.
The contents include:
- Introduction
- What is dementia?
- Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia
- Antipsychotic drugs
- Good practice in preventing the need for antipsychotic drugs
- Techniques that do not use drugs
- Alternative medications
- Conclusion
- References
Antipsychotic drugs in dementia: a best practice guide
This guide was issued with Nursing Standard, Nursing Older People, and Primary Health Care in Spring 2012.
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.