Mentoring students in medicines management.

Medicines management is an important part of the nurse's role. It covers elements such as cost-effectiveness, patient advice, infection control, optimising benefits from medicines, emerging technological developments, and drug administration and storage. The aim of this article is to enable mentors to support pre-registration nursing students to develop specific proficiencies in medicines management. The focus will be on applying pharmacological knowledge to practice, communicating patient information and avoiding medicine administration errors.