Pharmacology for nurses is a vital element of nurse training. The 2012 Jones & Bartlett Learning Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most practical and up-to-date nursing drug guide available. The book, specifically written for nurses, accurately describes each medication. It details each medication’s chemical makeup, indications, dosages, interactions, precautions, side-effects and special instructions. It’s a great book to prepare for a clinical in advance, as well as take along on clinical sites.
The no-nonsense comprehensive writing style makes learning a difficult subject a little easier. Quite simply, it’s the best value nursing drug guide available.
With over 350 updates, the new 2015 edition of the Pearson Nurse’s Drug Guide provides safe, effective, current, and accurate drug information in a quickly accessible format. Comprehensive and complete, it lists all drugs alphabetically by generic names for quick reference, with an index listing both generic and trade names. It presents important clinical information for hundreds of drugs, with adverse reactions, interactions, side effects, and impacts on lab results. It clearly presents information on IV preparation and push, continuous, or intermittent administration; as well as dosages for neonates, infants, adolescents, adults, and patients with obesity and renal or hepatic impairment. This edition also contains 18 brand-new monographs for drugs recently approved by the FDA.