Davis's drug guide for nurses

Vallerand, April Hazard (author.). Sanoski, Cynthia A., (author.).

Summary: "Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses provides comprehensive, up-to-date drug information in well-organized, nursing-focused monographs. It also includes extensive supplemental material in 16 appendices, thoroughly addresses the issue of safe medication administration, and educates the reader about 50 different therapeutic classes of drugs. In this 17th edition, we have continued the tradition of focusing on safe medication administration by including Medication Safety Tools and even more information about health care's most vulnerable patients: children, the elderly, pregnant women, and breast feeding mothers. Look for more Pedi, Geri, OB, and Lactation headings throughout the monographs"--

Record details

ISBN: 171964005X
ISBN: 9781719640053
ISBN: 9781719641135
Physical Description: print
x, 1478 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: Seventeenth edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : F.A. Davis Company, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 1434) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

How to use Davis's drug guide for nurses -- Evidence-based practice and pharmacotherapeutics : implications for nurses -- Pharmacogenomics -- Medication errors : improving practices and patient safety -- Detecting and managing adverse drug reactions -- Overview of risk evaluation and mitigation systems (REMS) -- Special dosing considerations -- The cytochrome p450 system -- Educating patients about safe medication use -- Classifications -- Drug monographs in alphabetical order by generic name -- Drugs approved in Canada -- Natural/herbal products -- Medication safety tools.