Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook is a comprehensive A-to-Z drug reference designed for nursing students. The book contains chapters on drug therapy and the nursing process, essentials of dosage calculations, drug administration routes (illustrated), and drug administration safety. This student guide also has a section of monographs on common drug classes (with prototype drugs highlighted). Every monograph for individual drugs has information organized by the nursing process. These consistently formatted monographs cover generic and trade names, pronunciations, pharmacologic and therapeutic class, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), indications and dosages with Adjust-a-dose for special populations, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and tables with route, onset, peak, and duration), drug action, available forms, and the nursing process (assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, patient teaching, evaluation).
A companion Website includes over 300 NCLEX-style questions, including alternate-format questions.
Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook is a comprehensive A-to-Z drug reference designed for nursing students. The book contains chapters on drug therapy and the nursing process, essentials of dosage calculations, drug administration routes (illustrated), and drug administration safety. This student guide also has a section of monographs on common drug classes (with prototype drugs highlighted). Every monograph for individual drugs has information organized by the nursing process. These consistently formatted monographs cover generic and trade names, pronunciations, pharmacologic and therapeutic class, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), indications and dosages with Adjust-a-dose for special populations, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and tables with route, onset, peak, and duration), drug action, available forms, and the nursing process (assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, patient teaching, evaluation).
A companion Website includes over 300 NCLEX-style questions, including alternate-format questions.
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
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978-0-7817-8883-0 (9780781788830)
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Contributors and consultants How to use Nursing 2009 Student Drug Handbook Guide to abbreviations Drug therapy and the nursing process Essentials of dosage calculations Drug administration routes Drug administration safety Drug classifications Alphabetical listing of drugs Photoguide to tablets and capsules Herbal medicines Appendices: Glossary Preventing miscommunication Pregnancy risk categories Controlled substance schedules Combination drug products Toxic drug-drug interactions Dialyzable drugs Herb-drug interactions Dietary teaching for drug therapy Table of equivalents and conversions Adverse reactions misinterpreted as age-related changes Drugs that shouldn't be crushed Normal laboratory test values English-to-Spanish drug phrase translator Acknowledgments Index
