Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference and Review Cards 1999

Mosby's 2000 Nursing Drug Reference & Review Cards provide an excellent resource for students seeking concise, portable, and convenient drug information. This popular clinical reference features 432 individual cards containing pharmacology and nursing management content for over 700 generic and 1,200 brand-name drugs. Revised annually, the text will include over 45 new and newly combined drugs, as well as hundreds of new drug facts. This card set also includes approximately 55 drug category cards, which allow easy review and a thorough understanding of the relationship among individual drugs in the same category. Additional features include Drug Class Quick facts, Fundamentals of Drug Therapy, the convenient Drug Review Cards, and a separate section on Management of Ingested Drug Overdose. Features: * Includes thorough coverage of nursing management priorities for drug categories, using a six-step nursing process format: assess, diagnose, plan, implement, educate patient, and evaluate.
* Features a consistent format for quick reference: generic name, pronunciation, category, pregnancy category, brand name, manufacturer, dosage forms, action, use, pharmacokinetics, contraindications, warnings, dosage, side/adverse effects, interactions, nursing management priorities, and notes. * Distinguishes between common and life-threatening side effects, educating students as to potential reactions to specific drugs. * Contains a Drug Review Guide listing drugs by body system and drug class, to allow for quick access to drug information by body system. New to this edition: * Presents hundreds of new drug facts, providing access to the most current information, such as recent dosage forms, new brand names (including Canadian), contraindications, side effects, actions, drug interactions, uses, and nursing management priorities. * Features expanded nursing management priorities for individual drug cards following the nursing process to assist the student in following the nursing process in pharmacology. * Places greater emphasis on outcomes within evaluation to alert the student to the importance of outcomes evaluation.
* Includes expanded content on administration of intravenous drugs to assist the student in administration of unfamiliar drugs * Utilizes a 2-color design to allow the reader to locate information more quickly and to enhance visual appeal.