The context of medicines management for adult nurses in today's NHS -- How to use information about medicines -- Applying knowledge and skills: approaches to learning -- Underpinning pharmacological principles: pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics -- Nursing implications and responsibilities -- Complementary medicinal products -- Cancer care -- Older adults and medication -- Rheumatoid arthritis: a woman wiht long-standing rheumatoid arthritis who has also developed osteoporosis -- Coronary heart disease: an adult male with hyperlipidaemia, who has an acute myocardial infarction and develops heart failure -- A man with an acute intestinal obstruction -- Epilepsy -- Alzheimer's disease: an older man who has Alzheimer's disease, primary hypertension and constipation -- Diabetes mellitus: an adult with type 2 diabetes, depression and hypothyroidism -- Asthma: a young man with asthma, eczema, pneumonia, and Down's syndrome who develops pneumonia -- Contemporary issues relating to drug and medicine development -- Contemporary issues in medicines management for nurses.