Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Third Edition and Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2007

Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Third Edition and Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2007 written by Amy M Karch, RN, MS and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2006-06-01 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. Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2006 provides comprehensive, easy-to-access information on 731 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including 20 recently-approved drugs. This edition lists common drug-herb interactions and adverse reactions that may be misinterpreted as age-related changes. Other features include a full-color photoguide to over 400 tablets and capsules; coverage of 40 pharmacologic and therapeutic classifications with prototype drugs highlighted; nursing process sections in every drug entry; chapters on dosage calculation, drug administration, andpreventing medication errors; and updates on eDrugInfo.com. Includes a free mini-CD containing an NCLEX-style pharmacology self-test with new alternate format questions.