Home: Nursing and midwifery: Drugs and pharmacology

Drug information

AusDI
Covers prescription medicines, hospital use, over-the-counter (OTC) products including many complementary medicines, devices, diagnostic agents, and dressings.
Australian injectable drugs handbook
Concise, referenced information commonly needed by nurses and pharmacists when preparing medicines to be administered to a patient by injection.
MIMS Online
Online version of MIMS. Includes data from MIMS abbreviated and full medicines information, product images, consumer medicines information, as well as essential information on prescription and non-prescription drugs.
NPS Medicinewise
Evidence-based website providing consumer and health professional information.

Medication Safety Standard (ACSQHC)
The Medication Safety Standard aims to ensure that clinicians safely prescribe, dispense, and administer appropriate medicines, and monitor medicine use
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for Health Professionals
Health professional information on medicines subsidised by the Australian Government.
Poisons Information Centre
Provides the latest poisons information to the public, and toxicology advice to health professionals on the management of poisoned and envenomed patients.
Queensland Health: medicines
Therapeutic drug resource from Queensland Health. Includes the list of approved medicines (LAM) and monitored medicines.
Therapeutic Goods and Administration (TGA)
Government body responsible for approving the use of therapeutic products in Australia.

PubChem
A collection of freely accessible chemical information managed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Drugs.com - UK Drug Information
Contains drug information on over 1,500 medications distributed within the United Kingdom.