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.

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Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology written by Amy M. Karch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 2829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the Principles of Effective Drug Therapy Current, concise, and optimized for today’s nursing practice, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology makes challenging concepts more approachable to establish a foundation for effective drug therapy throughout your nursing career. This updated 8th edition builds on your knowledge of physiology, chemistry and nursing fundamentals to help you conceptualize need-to-know information about each group of drugs, while engaging learning features cultivate your clinical application, critical thinking and patient education capabilities. NEW! Concept Mastery Alerts alert you to commonly misunderstood concepts. NEW! Unfolding case-based vignettes written by the National League for Nursing bring concepts to life through realistic clinical scenarios. Concise, streamlined approach emphasizes need-to-know information for efficient learning. Nursing Processes clarify the process for planning patient-centered care. Critical Thinking Scenarios guide you through the collection and application of data for commonly encountered clinical interactions. Nursing Considerations sections detail the rationale behind each nursing intervention to enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities. Drug Lists at the beginning of each chapter enable fast identification of prototype drugs for each class. Drugs in Focus tables provide at-a-glance reference for generic and trade names, usual dosage and indications for each drug within a class. Focus on Safe Medication Administration boxes help you ensure patient safety and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs. Focus on the Evidence boxes identify the best nursing practices associated with specific drugs based on available evidence. Focus on Herbal and Alternative Therapies alert you to known interactions with specific herbs or alternative therapies that could affect drug actions. Focus on Calculations refine your calculation and measurement skills. Focus on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes provide quick access to drug class considerations for use with children, adults and the elderly. Focus on Gender Considerations and Focus on Cultural Considerations help you ensure effective, culturally sensitive drug therapy across diverse populations. Check Your Understanding sections equip you for your exams with NCLEX®-style review questions, including alternate-format questions. Watch and Learn videos available on thePoint® help you avoid medication errors in practice.

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Download or read book Springhouse Nurse s Drug Guide 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2007 provides comprehensive, student-friendly information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including over 20 recently-approved drugs and dozens of recently-approved indications. This edition has more Alert logos to highlight potential drug errors; I.V. incompatibility information in every I.V. drug entry; new appendices on abbreviations to avoid and toxic drug interactions; and an expanded combination drugs appendix. Other features include a full-color photoguide to over 200 tablets and capsules; coverage of 40 pharmacologic and therapeutic classifications with prototype drugs highlighted; nursing process sections in every drug entry; and updates on eDrugInfo.com. A free bound-in CD-ROM contains an NCLEX�-style pharmacology self-test.

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Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology Third Edition and Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide 2007 Canadian Version written by Amy M Karch, RN, MS and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Third Edition, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Prganized by body system, the book methodically explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, ensuring that students fully understand this important content. Each chapter includes drug summary tables (with dosages), Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes, all-inclusive nursing care guides based on a typical case study with critical thinking tips and patient teaching checklists. Each chapter ends with NCLEX-style questions and other questions to form a mini-study guide. New to this edition are Prototype Drug boxes with details on prototype drugs; Focus on the Evidence boxes promoting evidence-based practice; mid-chapter Focus Points summaries of key content; Focus on Patient Safety emphasizing the importance of delivering medications correctly to the patient; and increased pharmacokinetics information. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 700 patients teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a free video on medication administration, additional NCLEX-style questions, and other learning tools. Updated with dozens of newly approved drugs and indications, Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide 2007 provides quick access to current, comprehensive, vital drug information.

Download or read book Springhouse Nurse s Drug Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide"--now endorsed by the National Student Nurses' Association--covers more than 750 commonly used generic drugs and more than 3,000 trade names in an easy-to-find, A-to-Z format that incorporates the nursing process. The tightly organized monographs and clear, consistent writing style help beginning students more easily understand the material. The comprehensive pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics information and the route-oneset-peak-duration charts help more advanced students readily gasp a drug's actions.

Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology written by Amy Morrison Karch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its Third Edition, this text 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. New to this edition are Prototype Drug boxes with details on prototype drugs; Focus on the Evidence boxes promoting evidence-based practice; Focus Points summaries of key content; Focus on Patient Safety emphasizing the importance of delivering medications correctly; and increased pharmacokinetics information. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a video on medication administration, NCLEX®-style questions, and additional learning tools.

Download or read book Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy written by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy, 3rd Edition, provides the nursing student and practicing nurse with important information about how drugs act and interact in the treatment of disease. This essential pharmacology reference focuses on the mechanisms of drug action; details specific drugs by pharmacologic class; reviews the nursing process related to each drug category for all body systems, plus pain medications, anti-infective drugs, and cancer drugs; and highlights potentially dangerous interactions, including drug-herb interactions. It does all of this in the award-winning, lighthearted Incredibly Easy! style that makes intimidating concepts thoroughly approachable. This completely updated third edition includes the most current NANDA diagnoses and covers Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, interactions, adverse reactions, and nursing process considerations for each drug. If you are still learning, Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy will help you master complex subjects in minutes with Quick Quizzes at the end of each chapter to gauge learning and special elements found throughout the text to make it easy to understand and remember key points and information, including: And if that's not enough you can go online to the easiest website to use . . . ever . . . where you'll find valuable resources, including a dosage calculator, pharmacology animations, prototype drug information, medication safety tips, mechanisms of action . . . and Instructor ancillaries, including teaching tips, student activities, test bank, and PowerPoint slides. Your grasp of pharmacology will never be clearer and no text will ever be easier to use than Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!

Download or read book Focus Nursing Pharmacol 8e Int Ed PB written by Amy M. Karch, RN MS and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth edition of Focus on Nursing Pharmacology is based on the premise that students first need to have a solid and clearly focused concept of the principles of drug therapy before they can easily grasp the myriad details associated with individual drugs. Armed with a fundamental knowledge of pharmacology, students appreciate and use the specific details that are readily available in the many annually updated and published nursing drug guides. With this goal in mind, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology provides a concise, user-friendly, uncluttered text for today's student. This difficult subject is presented in a streamlined, understandable, teachable, and learnable manner. Designed to be used in conjunction with a handbook of current drug information, content is streamlined and straight forward. The text reviews and integrates previously learned knowledge of physiology, chemistry, and nursing fundamentals into chapters focused on helping students conceptualize what is important to know about each group of drugs, with the prototype drug highlighted. Illustrations, sidebars, and tables sum up concepts to enhance learning. Special features further focus student learning on clinical application, critical thinking, patient safety, lifespan issues related to drug therapy, evidence-based practice, patient teaching, and case-study-based critical thinking exercises that incorporate nursing process principles. The new edition includes updated anatomy illustrations, expanded drug abuse content, and updated content throughout.

Download or read book Springhouse Nurse s Drug Guide 2008 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2008 provides comprehensive, student-friendly information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including nearly 20 recently-approved drugs and dozens of recently-approved indications. This edition highlights rapid-onset interactions and has more Alert logos to highlight potential drug errors. New appendices cover dietary teaching for drug therapy and avoiding miscommunication in drug orders. Other features include a full-color photoguide to over 200 tablets and capsules; coverage of 40 pharmacologic and therapeutic classifications with prototype drugs highlighted; nursing process sections in every drug entry; and updates on eDrugInfo.com. A free bound-in CD-ROM contains over 300 NCLEX�-style questions, including alternate-format questions.

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.

Download or read book EBOOK Essentials of Pharmacology for Nurses written by Paul Barber and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ideal starter text for student nurses makes pharmacology less intimidating by focusing on the knowledge needed at pre-registration level in order to practice as a newly qualified nurse. Noted for its clear layout and jargon-free language, this updated edition introduces pharmacology in a friendly, informative way. The book does not assume previous knowledge of pharmacology, or a level of confidence with maths and drugs calculations. This new edition has been carefully expanded to include a new chapter introducing drug calculations and measurements as well as more detail on drugs used in chronic conditions, as well as more on pharmacology for the older patient and for other specific groups such as children, pregnant women or those with minor illness. More case scenarios have been added to encourage nurses to apply knowledge to a range of different people with a range of needs. The book contains: 90 calculations and 100 multiple choice questions to help perfect your skills and assess learning Clinical tip boxes linking pharmacology to the role of the nurse 35 patient scenarios across a range of clinical settings References to key clinical tests and the latest NICE guidelinesThe book emphasises application of pharmacological principles to all areas of practice including drug action, interaction and side effects, and is useful to all students of pharmacology whether as part of a 3 year course, post-qualifying course, top-up course or standalone module. "This latest edition of a key textbook on pharmacology for nurses has moved forward from previous editions by becoming stronger by the inclusion of a greater scope of material so maintaining its place as an essential pharmacology book for current and forthcoming nursing students in all clinical practice fields to give them a strong evidence base for their studies and clinical practice. The addition of a chapter on drug calculations is an essential step forward in this edition for all students as this is a key component within all current nursing degree programmes. The continued use of case studies and clinical tips makes learning fun both as an individual but also in small learning groups of students. It follows a clear pathway for learning: it is easy to read, is clearly written and shows the importance of aspects of pharmacology within the work of a nurse. " Keith Booles, Senior Nurse Lecturer/Module Leader, Faculty of Health Sciences, Staffordshire University, UK "With the ever evolving role of nursing it is essential, for safe practice, that all nurses have knowledge of pharmacology. This latest edition of essentials of pharmacology for nurses offers just that. This is a well presented book with logical, thought out chapters that enable the reader to learn at their own pace. Although aimed at undergraduate nurses, I feel that this is a good base to build on pharmacology knowledge, not only for undergraduate nurses but also trained nurses." Sharon Riverol NHS West Cheshire CCG, UK

Download or read book Basic Pharmacology for Nurses E Book written by Michelle Willihnganz and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for its accurate, up-to-date drug content and its practical application of the nursing process to drugs and disorders, Clayton and Willihnganz’s Basic Pharmacology for Nurses, 17th Edition prepares you for safe medication administration. Emphasizing the nurse’s role, clear guidelines cover safe drug handling, types of drugs used for disorders or to affect body systems, injection and enteral administration, and patient education. From a respected PharmD/Nursing author team, this full-color text also provides an excellent review for the pharmacology questions on the NCLEX® examination. Current, accurate content ensures that the most current drugs and treatment protocols are presented. Application of the nursing process includes general principles of nursing care for each disorder, along with nursing considerations for drug treatment plans. An emphasis on safe drug handling and administration includes High Alert and Do Not Confuse icons as well as Medication Safety Alert boxes. A focus on patient education and health promotion equips you for health teaching related to medications. NCLEX® preparation sections at the end of each chapter helps you get ready for pharmacology-related questions on the NCLEX examination. A study guide corresponds to the textbook and offers review questions and clinical scenarios to reinforce your understanding of nursing pharmacology. Available separately. UPDATED drug coverage includes the most recent FDA approvals, withdrawals, and therapeutic uses. UPDTED guidelines cover injection and enteral medication administration, with an emphasis on safe medication practice. UPDATED treatment protocols include specific conditions such as asthma, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, COPD, and cancer. NEW! Objectives and key terms are listed at the beginning of each chapter, making it easy to see chapter content at a glance.

Download or read book Clinical Drug Therapy 8e Springhouse Nurse s Drug Gde 2007 Pkg written by Anne Collins Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular core nursing pharmacology textbook, Clinical Drug Therapy provides unique coverage of nurisng interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentaion, the text emplains the why behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Eighth Edition are case studies integrated into each chapter with case-based questions that foster critical thinking. New Research Briefs summarize current research and its nursing implications. A new chapter covers drugs for obesity, and all nutrition products have been consolidated into one chapter. New NCLEX-style questions appear at the end of each drug chapter. Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2007 provides comprehensive, student-friendly information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including over 20 recently-approved drugs. It also includes a full-color photoguide to over 200 tablets and capsules. This edition has more Alert logos to highlight potential drug errors; I.V. incompatibility information in every I.V. drug entry; new appendices on abbreviations to avoid and toxic drug interactions; and an expanded combination drugs appendix.

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