Springhouse / Lippincott Nursing Drug Handbook
Author: Springhouse
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2010 Softbound Book Edition + Web
Toolkit AKA: Nursing2010 Drug Handbook Softbound: 1,536+ pages Size: 4.5" x 7.5"
ISBN 1605473537
978-1605473536
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins / Springhouse June 2009, for 2010 (click the button below for the very best available price)
The best-selling nursing drug
handbook for decades is now in its fully updated.
Organized by therapeutic class,
Nursing Drug Handbook provides quick access to current, accurate
information on over 1,000 generic and 3,000 brand-name drugs.
Entries include Alerts, dosage adjustments for specific populations,
I.V. administration, off-label indications, adverse reactions, and
interactions with rapid-onset interactions highlighted.
This edition includes over 20 recently approved drugs and new
indications. New appendices include chemotherapy acronyms and
protocols and a table of common interactions with cytochrome P-450
enzymes.
The web package or CD package contains 200 drug monographs and corresponding
customizable patient-teaching handouts.
With your purchase you will
also receive access, free, to online drug updates. The edition’s interactions sections newly feature “Rapid
Onset” information, highlighting moderate-to-severe interactions
that appear within 24 hours. Coverage includes dozens of recently
FDA-approved drugs, more pediatric dosages, and more off-label uses.
Other features include a full-color photo guide to tablets and
capsules and an expanded English-Spanish drug phrase translator. The
book is arranged in this manner:
Compatibility of drugs combined in a
syringe
Contributors and consultants
How to use Nursing Drug Handbook
Guide to abbreviations
General Information
1. Drug actions, interactions,
and reactions
2. Drug therapy across the
lifespan
3. Safe drug administration
4. Drug classifications Anti-infectives
5. Amebicides, antiprotozoals,
and anthelmintics
6. Aminoglycosides
7. Antifungals
8. Antimalarials
9. Antiretrovirals
10. Antituberculotics
11. Antivirals
12. Cephalosporins
13. Fluororquinolones
14. Local anti-infectives
15. Macrolide anit-infectives
16. Penicillins
17. Scabicides and pediculicides
18. Sulonamides
19. Tetracyclines
20. Miscellaneous anti-infectives
Cardiovascular System Drugs
64. Miscellaneous
gastrointestinal tract drugs Genitourinary System Drugs
65. Benigh prostatic hyperplasia
drugs
66. Erectile dysfunction drugs
67. Incontinence drugs
68. Miscellaneous urinary drugs
Hormonal Drugs
69. Androgens and anabolic
steroids
70. Estrogens and progestins
71. Fertility drugs
72. Oral antidiabetics
73. Oxytocics
74. Parenteral antidiabetics and
glucagon
75. Pituitary hormones
76. Steroidal anti-inflammatories
77. Thyroid hormone antagonists
78. Thyroid hormones
79. Topical anti-inflammatories
Antineoplastics
80. Alkylating drugs
81. Antibiotic antineoplastics
82. Antimetabolites
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
