Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference Linda Skidmore-Roth, RN, MSN, NP
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For current, complete drug
information, with a focus on safe medication administration,
this book is the ideal choice.
This indispensable resource,
featuring the latest drug information organized alphabetically, is a
favorite among clinicians, students and practitioners. Thoroughly revised and updated every year, this portable,
up-to-date handbook contains all the essential information needed to
safely administer thousands of generic and trade name drugs.
All nurses and other health care
professionals have "important" reference information that
they should carry along, or have access to, in the clinical setting.
This is that type of important information. It features more than
2,000 new drug facts including new and revised:
nursing considerations
patient and family teaching guidelines
side effects, adverse reactions, precautions, interactions,
contraindications
IV therapy facts, and
hundreds of additional herbal and alternative
interactions.
Many special features promote safe medication administration and
prevention of drug errors, including identification of high alert
drugs, do-not-crush and nursing alert icons, do-not-confuse
cautions, new FDA recommended “Tall man” spellings, and overdose
treatment.
With the Book and CD-ROM version, you will receive a
DrugPro mini CD-ROM with patient teaching guides and a
drug-interaction tool. This CD-ROM is compatible with Mac and
Windows.
With the PDA / handheld software version, PDA
software is navigated using the MobiPocket ReaderPro, making it
virtually platform-independent. The ReaderPro is small enough that
it will not slow down even older devices, and it offers many useful
built-in features, including full text search, annotation and
highlighting capability, bookmarks with easy link-style navigation,
adjustable font size, type, text alignment, and color, multiple
indexes, removable memory card support, and a customizable toolbar.
Nurse Executives and Managers, many of your
peers procure quantities of
these reliable guides each year, installing at least one at each
nursing station. With the priorities of accurate patient education
and reduction of medication errors, every nurse needs at least up-to-date
access to reliable medicine information:
Highlights High Alert drugs to caution nurses to use extra
care in administering drugs most likely to cause patient harm.
Features Research headings to denote drugs currently involved
in important research studies.
Features more than 100 Do Not Crush icons to denote drugs that
may not be administered in crushed form.
Presents more than 1,300 generic drugs (encompassing more than
4,500 trade names) in an alphabetical organization for quick
clinical reference.
Provides extensive nursing considerations in a concise,
practice-oriented framework: Assess, Administer,
Perform/Provide, Evaluate, and Teach Patient/Family.
Organizes monographs alphabetically by generic drug name to
allow for fast retrieval of needed information.
Offers lifespan content via coverage of geriatric, pediatric,
and pregnancy considerations throughout.
Highlights common and life-threatening side effects in
different typefaces for easy identification, with side effects
listed in decreasing order of likelihood.
Identifies critical nursing considerations with a special
Nursing Alert icon to identify considerations that require
special attention.
Features over 400 potential interactions between drugs and
herbal products, denoted by an eye-catching icon.
Nursing Drug Dosage Calculators
provide users with quick,
portable confirmation of key drug calculations.
Groups IV drug information under the monograph subheading
Administer, with a boldface IV heading ensuring that all of the
IV drug administration content is grouped together in one
easy-to-find place.
Includes all drug compatibility information under the
Administer monograph subheading to make this crucial information
easy to locate.
Includes a separate section of drug category information that
includes nursing considerations and a list of common generic
drugs in each category.
Provides a complete clinical reference by including appendixes
of recent FDA drug approvals; ophthalmic, otic, nasal, and
topical products; vaccines and toxoids, combination products;
less frequently used antihistamines; FDA pregnancy categories;
controlled substances; commonly used abbreviations; weights and
equivalents; formulas for drug calculations; nomogram for
calculation of body surface area; and commonly used antibiotics
in adults and children.
Features a 16-page insert containing a drug identification
guide with 160 new full-color photographs of frequently
prescribed tablets and capsules, to help nurses identify common
drugs and deliver safe, quality patient care; photos are
arranged alphabetically by generic name, with common trade names
and dosage strengths included. It also has been completely
updated to reflect the top 50 prescribed drugs in 2003.
Lists over 1,700 pairs of look-alike/sound-alike drug names
under special Do Not Confuse headings within drug monographs to
help nurses avoid administering the wrong drug.
Provides a Syringe Compatibility Chart
inside the front cover
and an IV Drug/Solution Compatibility Chart inside the back
cover.
A special Herbal Product icon highlights over 700 potential
interactions between drugs and herbal products and an Herbal
Products appendix also lists over 75 popular herbal supplements
and their uses.
The Combination Products appendix includes nearly 900 commonly
used combination products, their individual components, and
their uses.
Offers a flexible, water-resistant cover that provides
durability in the clinical setting.
Includes free Internet updates to provide users with the
latest drug alerts, abbreviated new drug monographs, tables of
recently released U.S. and Canadian drugs, links to useful
drug-related websites, an extensive table of orphan drugs, a
detailed table of AHA drug dosing guidelines based on the
AHA standards, and a comprehensive drug safety reference.
Every copy
includes a CD-ROM packed with useful tools, such as patient teaching
guides in English and Spanish, a drug interaction tool, and detailed
information on herbal products.
Key features
of the PDA version are:
Nursing Drug
Dosage Calculators provide users with the ability to quickly
confirm key drug calculations.
High alert
drugs are clearly identified to help nurses identify drugs that
are most likely to cause the patient harm if incorrectly used.
Features a
comprehensive index that organizes more than 1,300 generic
drugs, encompassing over 4,500 trade names, for quick access.
Provides
extensive nursing considerations in a concise, practice-oriented
framework: Assess, Administer, Perform/Provide, Evaluate, and
Teach Patient/Family.
Lifespan
content covers geriatric, pediatric, and pregnancy
considerations throughout.
Highlights
common and life-threatening side effects for easy identification
with side effects grouped by body system.
Do Not
Confuse headings identify over 1,700 of the most commonly
confused drug names, each integrated into drug monographs for
easy access.
Features
over 4,700 potential interactions between drugs and herbal
products.
Administer
subheadings include all drug compatibility information, making
this vital information easy to find.
Compatibility with Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC, as
well as many other operating systems, makes software usable on
almost any PDA.
Now powered
by Skyscape, the software offers complete cross-linking
functionality with all Skyscape products allowing users to
create fully personalized product suites from their favorite
products.
About the Author: Linda
Skidmore-Roth, RN, MSN, NP, Consultant, Littleton, Colorado; Former
Nursing Faculty, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New
Mexico; El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas.
You may also be interested in
these drug resources:
AHFS Drug
Information - AHFS DI -
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, for physicians,
pharmacists & practitioners
