PERSONALISED MEDICINES ARE AN ADVANCE – BUT WILL INCREASE PRESSURE ON NURSES
December 1st, 2013
PERSONALISED medicines offer the chance of tailoring treatments for the age, gender and genetic make-up of patients. And while this offers the chance of better care and the minimizing of side-effects, the use of such medicines have obvious management demands, especially for nurses. Their use will demand not just the correct dosing but the prescribing and administration of the right kind of a medicine for the right kind of patient. That will almost certainly require additional training and new drug management procedures.And it also has the potential to put greater ...
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