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• giving patients information about their illness and treatment;<br />

• tailoring medication regimes to suit the patient;<br />

• use of compliance therapy techniques.<br />

The SNMAC (1999) report recognises the need for developing nurses’<br />

skills in this area. However, to improve practice throughout the British<br />

NHS, and to move towards achieving the standards set within the NSF,<br />

training on these will also need to be provided.<br />

Annotated readings<br />

Medication management 231<br />

Bazire, S. (2001) Psychotropic Drug Directory 2001. Wiltshire: Quay Books.<br />

Very useful information about psychotropic drugs. A must-have book, updated annually.<br />

Day, J.C., Wood, G., Dewey, M. and Bentall, R.P. (1995) ‘A self-rating scale for measuring<br />

neuroleptic side-effects. Validation in a group of schizophrenic patients’, British<br />

Journal of Psychiatry, 166: 650–3.<br />

Information about the LUNSERS.<br />

Gournay, K. and Gray, R. (2001) Should <strong>Mental</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Nurses Prescribe? London:<br />

Maudsley Publications.<br />

A discussion on mental health nurse prescribing. Copies are available from Sarah Smith,<br />

Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London<br />

SE5 8AF.<br />

Gray, R. (1999) ‘Antipsychotics, side-effects and effective management’, <strong>Mental</strong> <strong>Health</strong><br />

Practice, 2 (7): 14–20.<br />

Some useful strategies for managing anti-psychotic side-effects.<br />

Haynes, R.B. Montague, P., Oliver, T. et al. (1999) Interventions for Helping Patients<br />

Follow Prescriptions for Medication (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library,<br />

Issue 4, Oxford: Update Software.<br />

Systematic review of compliance interventions.<br />

Kemp, R., Hayward, P., Applewhaite, G. et al. (1996) ‘Compliance therapy in psychoatic<br />

patients. Randomised controlled trial’, British Medical Journal, 312: 345–9.<br />

Kemp, R., Kirov, G., Everitt, P. et al. (1998) ‘Randomised controlled trial of compliance<br />

therapy. 18-month follow-up’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 172: 413–19.<br />

The compliance therapy trials.<br />

Macpherson, R., Jerrom, B. and Hughes, A. (1996) ‘A controlled study of education about<br />

drug treatment in schizophrenia’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 168: 709–17.<br />

Patient education trial.

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