Nursing and Midwifery

Sheffield Hallam has access to the following resources through the Medicines Complete platform:

• BNF (British National Formulary) - The first choice for concise medicines information.

• BNF for Children - The first choice for concise medicines information for children.

• Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons - Definitive source of analytical data for drugs and poisons. Essential for all forensic and clinical toxicologists, pathologists, hospital pharmacists, pharmaceutical analysts, clinical pharmacologists, clinical and forensic laboratories, and poison information centres.

• Dale and Appelbe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law - A definitive guide of the law and professional ethics that affect the practice of pharmacy in Great Britain. It covers contemporary British law relating to human and veterinary medicines, poisons, and pharmacy professional regulation that are applicable to all branches of the pharmacy profession.

• Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes - Information on the administration of drugs via enteral feeding tubes.

• Drug Monitoring Checker - Evidence-based drug monitoring information to optimise the treatment of adult patients in primary and secondary care.

• Injectable Drugs Guide - A guide for healthcare professionals in the prescribing, preparation, administration, and monitoring of injectable drugs.

• Martindale’s ADR Checker - Authoritative source on managing adverse drug reactions.

• Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference - Information and background on conventional and complementary drugs and associated compounds, international proprietary names, and disease treatments.

• Pharmaceutical Excipients - A comprehensive guide to the uses, properties and safety of pharmaceutical excipients.

• Stockley’s Drug Interactions - The world’s most comprehensive and authoritative reference on drug interactions, providing concise, accurate, and clinically relevant evidence-based information, covering therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foodstuffs, drinks, pesticides, and drugs of abuse.

On Medicines Complete, you can search these publications individually or all together. You may see some other publications / resources listed on Medicines Complete that SHU does not have access to. 

The British National Formulary (BNF) is a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, which gives up-to-date information about the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines usually prescribed in the UK.

SHU has an institutional license for the British National Formulary, so you can freely make use of the BNF and BNFC as part of your studies.

When using BNF, look up the drug name, not the brand name. 

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) aims to champion the pharmacy profession.

Their Competency Framework for all Prescribers has been adopted by the NMC as their standards of competency for prescribing practice. This means that NMC professionals need to follow this framework to be considered to be safe and effective prescribers.