Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide

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2011 Book & Web Edition
Softbound: 1,488 pages + online resources
Size: 4.5" x 7.75"
ISBN 1609132378
978-1609132378
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins / Springhouse
August 2010
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This reliable resource contains over 800 complete drug monographs, organized alphabetically, plus a full-color photo-guide to pills and capsules and 24 rapid-reference appendices appropriate for practicing nurses.

This edition includes eleven new monographs on recently approved drugs. To ensure safe drug administration, more clinical alerts and "Warning" alerts with logos are included. New appendices cover dialyzable drugs and treatments for biological and chemical weapons exposure. A bound-in CD-ROM contains 200 drug monographs and patient-teaching aids. Each monograph covers:

generic name;
US and Canadian trade names;
pregnancy risk category;
controlled substance schedule if appropriate;
drug class;
therapeutic actions;
indications,
including off-label indications;
contraindications and cautions;
available forms;
dosages;
pharmacokinetics;
I.V. facts;
adverse effects;
interactions;
nursing considerations;
assessment;
interventions; and
patient teaching points.

The book includes a full-color photo guide to pills and capsules, details on preventing and reporting medication errors, a quick-reference chart of normal laboratory test values, and over 20 appendices. Updates and continuing education tests are available online for purchasers of this book. The book is organized like this:

Consultants
Preface
Anatomy of a monograph
Guide to abbreviations
Nursing process guidelines
Preventing medication errors
Pharmacologic classes
Alphabetical listing of drugs by generic name
Appendices:
- Alternative and complementary therapies
- Preventing miscommunication
- Patient teaching to prevent medication errors
- Important dietary guidelines for patient teaching
- Drugs that interact with grapefruit juice
- Intramuscular and subcutaneous routes of administration
- Tablets and capsules that cannot be cut, crushed, or chewed
- Medication disposal guidelines
- Calculating pediatric dosages
- Recommended pediatric immunizations
- Recommended adult immunizations
- Federal drug classifications
- Cardiovascular guidelines
- Normal laboratory values
- Canadian regulations
- Topical drugs
- Ophthalmic drugs
- Laxatives
- Combination products by therapeutic class
- Frequently used combination products by trade name
- Hormonal contraceptives
- Commonly used biologicals
- Less commonly used drugs
Bibliography
Index

Special Note to Nurse Executives: Many hospitals and clinics buy this book in quantity to ensure each nursing station and office keeps a copy of this reliable resource.

Up-to-date and easily accessible information is cited as a primary tool in the prevention of medication and prevention errors.

You may also be interested in these drug resources:

AHFS Drug Information - AHFS DI - American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, for physicians, pharmacists & practitioners
Nurse's Drug Guide - Prentice Hall, Pearson
Nursing Drug Guide - Lippincott, book, CD-ROM, PDA
Nursing Drug Handbook - Lippincott / Springhouse, book, CD, PDA
Nursing Drug Handbook - Saunders, book, CD, PDA
Nursing Drug Interactions Handbook - Springhouse
Nursing Drug Reference - Mosby, book, CD, PDA
PDR / Physician's Desk Reference - book and CD-ROM, current editions
PDR Companion Guide - current edition
PDR Drug Guide for Mental Health Professionals - current edition
PDR for Herbal Medicines - current edition
PDR Drug Guide for Mental Health Professionals - current edition
PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements & Herbs - current editions
PDR for Nutritional Supplements - up-to-date
PDR for Ophthalmic Medicines - current edition
PDR Guide to Drug Interactions, Side Effects & Indications - current edition
PDR Guide to Terrorism Response - current
PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook - current
Red Book - Thomson PDR

(information from the publisher)

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