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Produced by the Joint Formulary Committee, the BNF is one of the most commonly used and reliable sources of information on medication. It offers comprehensive details on individual medications, groups of medications, uses, side effects and interactions and can assist with decision‐making. The BNF is an essential tool for all practitioners; it is a repository of almost all drugs that are used in British healthcare settings (Young and Pitcher, 2016). The nurse should ensure they are familiar with its use, making it the go‐to guide for any queries regarding drugs. A joint publication of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and British Medical Association, it is devised to offer all healthcare professionals contemporary information on medications and their uses. The information provided is sourced from summaries of product characteristics for medications, literature, consensus guidelines and peer review and employs a grading system of A–E and levels of evidence to help readers understand the strength of evidence underpinning the associated recommendations given (Joint Formulary Committee, 2019a).