Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology and 2004 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide Canadian Version written by Amy M. Karch and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 2384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2004 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide written by Amy Morrison Karch and published by Spring House / Emd. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated for 2004 with more than 800 complete drug monographs, this annual reference is an invaluable resource for practicing nurses and students. Organized alphabetically for easy access, monographs cover generic and trade names; pronunciations; pregnancy risk category; controlled substance schedule if appropriate; drug class; therapeutic actions; indications, including unlabeled indications; contraindications and cautions; available forms; dosage information; pharmacokinetics; IV facts section; adverse effects; interactions; assessment; intervention; and teaching points. More than 20 appendices as well as free mini CD-ROM, with 200 drug monographs and customizable patient- teaching handouts, are included. Access to important drug updates and new drugs, as well as continuing education tests, are provided at NursingDrugGuide.com.
Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology and 2004 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide written by Karch and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 2384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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 2008-06-01 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this book presents everything the nurse and nursing student needs to know about how drugs act and interact in the treatment of disease. The book focuses on 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. This thoroughly updated Second edition includes the most current NANDA diagnoses. New chapters cover genitourinary drugs and drugs to treat fluid and electrolyte imbalances. Obesity drugs have been added to the gastrointestinal drugs chapter.
Download or read book Drug Therapy in Nursing and 2004 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide written by Diane S. Aschenbrenner and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lippincott Nursing Drug Guide written by Amy Karch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date drug guide for nursing students and practicing nurses, Lippincott Nursing Drug Guide provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information. The book provides complete monographs for 725 common drugs, including generic and trade names, pronunciations, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if appropriate), drug classes, therapeutic actions, indications, contraindications and cautions, available forms, dosages, pharmacokinetics, IV facts (if appropriate), adverse effects, interactions, and nursing considerations organized by nursing process steps (assessment, interventions, and teaching points). More than 20 appendices cover a wealth of additional information, from key facts on more than 200 less commonly used drugs to alternative and complementary therapies, pediatric dosages, federal drug classifications, normal lab values, topical and ophthalmic drugs, combination products, CYP450 metabolized drugs, and more. The book also includes a 32-page full-color photoguide to pills and capsules and a detailed index for quick retrieval of needed information. The electronic ancillary contains the latest FDA updates on new drugs, indications, and warnings; videos on safe drug administration; updated NCLEX-style questions; and more.
Download or read book Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy written by Springhouse and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this book presents everything the nurse and nursing student needs to know about how drugs act and interact in the treatment of disease. The book focuses on 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. This thoroughly updated Second edition includes the most current NANDA diagnoses. New chapters cover genitourinary drugs and drugs to treat fluid and electrolyte imbalances. Obesity drugs have been added to the gastrointestinal drugs chapter.
Download or read book Drug Therapy in Nursing and 2004 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide Canadian Version written by Diane S. Aschenbrenner and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide CD ROM written by Amy Morrison Karch and published by Springhouse Corporation. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated for 2005, this guide contains over 800 complete drug monographs, organized alphabetically for easy access. Each monograph covers generic and trade names; special designation for OTC drugs; pregnancy risk category; controlled substance schedule if appropriate; drug class; therapeutic actions; indications, including unlabeled indications; contraindications and cautions; dosage; pharmacokinetics; IV facts section; adverse effects; interactions; assessment; intervention; and teaching points. The book includes a full-color photoguide to pills and capsules, details on preventing and reporting medication errors, and over 20 appendices, including cardiovascular guidelines, intramuscular and subcutaneous administration sites, and drugs that interact with grapefruit juice. Drug updates and continuing education tests are available at NursingDrugGuide.com.
Download or read book EBOOK The Prescription Drug Guide for Nurses written by Sue Jordan and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-04-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book was written by a senior lecturer in health science with a great deal of input from nurses. It highlights the burden of treatment and is a resource for non-medical prescribers in identifying adverse drug reactions and for recognising definitions and classifications. ... The sections on ‘potential problems’ and ‘suggestions for prevention and management’ were particularly enlightening. The book provides ideas for better patient consultations through discussions about medications and their effects." Nursing Standard "This likeable little book is a definite contributionto the field and should find a home in every ward,unit and hospital library shelf." International Emergency Nursing "This book is exceedingly timely. I am certain it will be invaluable to both undergraduate and post graduate student nurses, and, also act as a continuing reference source. Thoroughly recommended." Molly Courtenay, Reading University, UK "Sue Jordan has combined her deep understanding of her own discipline with her long experience of teaching nurses, to produce just the right type and level of information that nurses need, in a format that they will find relevant to their practice and easy to use. This book will be an essential reference resource for every ward bookshelf." Professor Dame June Clark, Swansea University, UK This popular Nursing Standard prescription drug series is now available for the first time in book format! Organised by drug type and presented in an easy-to-use reference format, this book outlines the implications for practice of 20 drug groups: ACE inhibitors Antibacterial drugs Anti-coagulants Antidepressants Anti-emetics Anti-epileptic drugs Antipsychotics Beta blockers Bronchodilators Controlling gastric acidity Corticosteroids Cytotoxic drugs Diuretics Insulin Laxatives NSAIDs Opioids Oral anti-diabetic drugs Thyroid and anti-thyroid drugs Vasodilators (calcium channel blockers and nitrates) Each drug group is presented in handy quick check format, and covers: Drug actions Indications Administration Adverse effects Practice suggestions Cautions/contra-indications Interactions
Download or read book 2013 Lippincott s Nursing Drug Guide written by Amy Morrison Karch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, annual guide for nursing students and practicing nurses, the 2013 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information. The book has complete monographs for more than 700 common drugs. In addition, an appendix summarizes key information on more than 200 less commonly used drugs. Complete monographs contain generic and trade names, pronunciations, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if appropriate), drug classes, therapeutic actions, indications, contraindications and cautions, available forms, dosages, pharmacokinetics, IV facts (if appropriate), adverse effects, interactions, and a nursing considerations section based on nursing process steps including assessment, interventions, and teaching points. The book also includes a 32-page full-color photo guide to pills and capsules for easy reference and multiple additional appendices that summarize key clinical information. This is the only drug book to include a "DO NOT CRUSH" logo so nurses can quickly identify medications that should not be crushed - a key patient safety feature. The Web Toolkit provides convenient features including FDA warnings, new drug and herb updates, medication administration and safety videos, dosage calculator, patient teaching handouts, pharmacology animations, English-Spanish audio medical and medication administration terms and phrases, audio generic drug pronunciations, medication administration procedures, NCLEX-style questions, mechanisms of action of selected drug classes, foods that contain tyramine, one free CE test plus additional CE discounts, and various handy charts and information, such as controlled substance schedules, I.V. drug incompatibility, dialyzable drugs, toxic drug-drug interactions, and much more.
Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology Second Edition Text and Study Guide written by Amy M. Karch and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Focus on Nursing Pharmacology written by Amy Morrison Karch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Karch has found that students learn best when concepts are built upon each other, growing from simple to complex, building on a foundation of understanding. Organized by body systems, this heavily illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information into focused, easy-to-learn steps. Building key concepts upon each other, the text gives students a solid foundation of understanding. Easy to understand drug prototype boxes are integrated throughout the book as well as integrated content summaries. It includes the popular and proven "Focus on" theme for drug use across the lifespan, cultural and gender considerations, evidence-based practice, patient teaching, herbal and alternative therapies and dosage calculation, with "Focus on Safe Medication Administration" and a "Drugs in Focus" table for each classification of drugs. Drug discussions include therapeutic actions and indications, pharmacokinetics, contraindications and cautions and adverse effects. Detailed rationales are presented throughout. Each chapter opens with Learning Objectives and a Glossary of Key Terms, and ends with NCLEX-style questions, and contains a case study-based critical thinking exercise with a discussion and case-based nursing care guide. Included in this package is Lippincott's Photo Atlas of Medication Administration (ISBN 9781451112481) which uses the nursing process format to provide step-by-step nursing skills.
Download or read book Pharmacology written by Marilyn J. Herbert-Ashton and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick Look Nursing: Pharmacology provides an overview of medications utilizing a systems approach. The drug information is simplified and organized into sections according to medications that affect a particular body system or a condition that interferes with a client's overall health. Each chapter contains a drug chart that lists prototype and related drugs for each classification; each drug is classified by its drug action, use, pregnancy category, adverse and side effects, interactions, contraindications, nursingimplications, and client teaching.
Download or read book Pharmacology written by Marilyn Herbert-Ashton and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick Look Nursing: Pharmacology, Second Edition provides an overview of medications utilizing a systems approach. With a focus on client teaching and nursing implications, this pharmacology review book that can be used both in the classroom and clinical setting.Important pedagogical features:-Critical thinking questions and multiple case studies are found in each chapter -Quick look at chapter ahead -Highlighted key points -NCLEX-Style Questions!
Download or read book 2015 Lippincott Pocket Drug Guide for Nurses written by Amy M. Karch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 Lippincott Pocket Drug Guide for Nurses provides current, vital drug information “in a nutshell.” Based on the popular Lippincott Nursing Drug Guide by Amy Karch, this handy pocket guide by the same author gives essential information on over 1,500 medications in an easy-access A-to-Z format. The “mini” drug monographs include generic and trade names, drug class, pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule, “black box” warnings, indications & dosages, dose adjustments, adverse effects, drug interactions, nursing considerations, and patient teaching. A special section reviews Patient Safety and Medication Administration. Appendices cover topical and ophthalmic medications, laxatives, combination products, contraceptives, biological agents (vaccines), and more. Also includes free online access to Monthly Drug Updates and a Toolkit loaded with hundreds of additional drug-related resources on thePoint. The pocket-sized 2015 Lippincott Pocket Drug Guide for Nurses will quickly become your go-to guide for important drug facts and vital patient safety tips and alerts. New to this edition: Full monographs on 28 newly approved drugs More than 1,300 additions, changes, and updates to indications, dosages, and administration
