Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook, 2009 Edition
LWW
ISBN: 978-0-7817-8883-0
Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook is a new drug guide designed with the nursing student in mind. This comprehensive drug reference provides student-focused information on the most commonly used generics and trade drugs in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. In order to reinforce and aid students’ learning, each individual entry is organized by the nursing process, including assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, patient teaching, and evaluation. In addition, the book includes chapters on drug therapy and the nursing process, essentials of dosage calculations, illustrated drug administration routes, and drug administration safety, as well as a 16-page full-color guide to common capsules and tablets. Also, several helpful appendices provide nursing students valuable information on administering drugs safely.
This companion Website provides online resources specifically for the nursing student: Practice Tests with more than 300 NCLEX®-style questions, a dosage calculator, drug administration and safety videos, pharmacology animations, and English-Spanish audio medical phrases.
FEATURES:
- Information on 20 new drugs
- 16-page full-color guide to common capsules and tablets
- I.V. administration sections with incompatibilities
- Off-label indications
- Rapid-onset interactions highlighted for safety
- Joint Commission-approved abbreviations for safety
- High Alert logo spotlights dangerous drugs
- New Drug logo highlights recently approved drugs
- New Indication logo identifies recently added indications
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