Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 3e + 2007 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Gde Pkg

Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology 3e + 2007 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Gde Pkg written by Amy M Karch, RN, MS and published by Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on Nursing Pharmacology presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, ensuring that students fully understnad thios important content. Each chapter includes drug summary tables (with dosages), Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boses, all-inclusive nursing care guides based on a typical case study with critical thinking tips and patient teaching checklists and ends with NCLEX-style questions and other questions to form a mini-study guide. New to this edition are Prototype Drug boxes; Focus on the evidence boses promoting evidence-based practice; mid-chapter Focus Points summaries of key content; Focus on Oatient Safety emphasizing the importance of delivering medications correctly to the patient; and increased pharmacokinetics information. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a free video on medication administration, and additional NCLEX-style questions, and other learning tools. Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide 2007 provides quick access to current, comprehensive, vital drug information. It contains over 800 complete drug monographs, organized alphabetically, plus a full-color photoguide to pills and capsules and 24 rapid-reference appendices appropriate for practicing nurses. This edition includes eleven new monographs on recently approved drugs. To ensure safe drug administration, more clinical alerts and Warning alerts with logos are included. New appendices cover dialyzable drugs and treatments for biological and chemical weapons exposure. Abound-in CD-ROM contains 200 drug monographs and patient-teaching aids. Updates and continuing education tests are on NursingDrugGuide.com.