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Main description:
Organized by body systems, this heavily illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information into focused, easy-to-learn steps. Building key concepts upon each other, the text gives students a solid foundation of understanding. Easy to understand drug prototype boxes are integrated as well as integrated content summaries. The fifth edition includes a completely revamped art program with more images depicting drug actions than any of the book's competitors. The fifth edition also underwent major reorganization to streamline the very functional "Focus on" theme for drug use across the lifespan, cultural and gender considerations, evidence-based practice, patient teaching, herbal and alternative therapies and dosage calculations; a new box, "Focus on Safe Medication Administration;" and totally revamped "Drugs in Focus" table for each classification of drugs. Focused content and focused features equal a focused student.
In addition, we've expanded and updated content on psychiatric agents (includes new indications, cautions and precautions), and significantly expanded information on AIDS and therapeutic management. Drug discussions include therapeutic actions and indications, pharmacokinetics, contraindications and cautions and adverse effects. Detailed rationales are presented throughout. Each chapter opens with Learning Objectives and a Glossary of Key Terms, and ends with NCLEX-style questions, and contains a case study-based critical thinking exercise that sets up a situation, shows critical thinking, and then presents a discussion and case-based nursing care guide. Features like this make the book an essential teaching tool.
Lippincott’s Photo Atlas of Medication Administration comes with this text. Photo Atlas uses the nursing process format to provide step-by-step nursing skills (with rationales). In addition to being completely illustrated, the Photo Atlas also contains documentation guidelines and samples, and Unexpected Situations, which explain how to respond to unanticipated outcomes. Topics include removing medication from an ampule, removing medication from a vial, mixing medications from two vials in one syringe, administering an intradermal injection, and more.
Contents:
PART I Introduction to Nursing Pharmacology
- 1 Introduction to Drugs
- 2 Drugs and the Body
- 3 Toxic Effects of Drugs
- 4 The Nursing Process in Drug Therapy and Patient Safety
- 5 Dosage Calculations
- 6 Challenges to Effective Drug Therapy
- 7 Introduction to Cell Physiology
- 8 Anti-Infective Agents
- Antibiotics
- 10 Antiviral Agents
- 11 Antifungal Agents
- 12 Antiprotozoal Agents
- 13 Anthelmintic Agents
- 14 Antineoplastic Agents
- 15 Introduction to the Immune Response and Inflammation
- 16 Anti-Inflammatory, Antiarthritis, and Related Agents
- 17 Immune Modulators
- 18 Vaccines and Sera
- 19 Introduction to Nerves and the Nervous System
- 20 Anxiolytic and Hypnotic Agents
- 21 Antidepressant Agents
- 22 Psychotherapeutic Agents
- 23 Anti-seizure Agents
- 24 Antiparkinsonism Agents
- 25 Muscle Relaxants
- 26 Narcotics, Narcotic Antagonists and Antimigraine Agents
- 27 General and Local Anesthetic Agents
- 28 Neuromuscular Junction Blocking Agents
- 29 Introduction to the Autonomic Nervous System
- 30 Adrenergic Agonists
- 31 Adrenergic Blocking Antagonists
- 32 Cholinergic Agonists
- 33 Anticholinergic Agents
- 34 Introduction to the Endocrine System
- 35 Hypothalamic and Pituitary Agents
- 36 Adrenocortical Agents
- 37 Thyroid and Parathyroid Agents
- 38 Agents to Control Blood Glucose Levels
- 39 Introduction to the Reproductive System
- 40 Drugs Affecting the Female Reproductive System
- 41 Drugs Affecting the Male Reproductive System
- 42 Introduction to the Cardiovascular System
- 43 Drugs Affecting Blood Pressure
- 44 Cardiotonic Agents
- 45 Antiarrhythmic Agents
- 46 Antianginal Agents
- 47 Lipid-Lowering Agents
- 48 Drugs Affecting Blood Coagulation
- 49 Drugs Used to Treat Anemias
- 50 Introduction to the Renal System
- 51 Diuretic Agents
- 52 Drugs Affecting the Urinary Tract and the Bladder
- 53 Introduction to the Respiratory System
- 54 Drugs Acting on the Upper Respiratory Tract
- 55 Drugs Acting on the Lower Respiratory Tract
- 56 Introduction to the Gastrointestinal System
- 57 Drugs Affecting Gastrointestinal Secretions
- 58 Drugs Affecting Gastrointestinal Motility
- 59 Antiemetic Agents
PART II Chemotherapeutic Agents
PART III Drugs Acting on the Immune System
PART IV Drugs Acting on the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
PART V Drugs Acting on the Autonomic Nervous System
PART VI Drugs Acting on the Endocrine System
PART VII Drugs Acting on the Reproductive System
PART VIII Drugs Acting on the Cardiovascular System
PART IX Drugs Acting on the Renal System
PART X Drugs Acting on the Respiratory System
PART XI Drugs Acting on the Gastrointestinal System
Glossary
Answer Key
Appendices
A. Parenteral Agents
B. Topical Agents
C. Ophthalmic Agents
D. Vitamins
E. Alternative and Complementary Therapies
F. Diagnostic Agents
G. Canadian Drug Names
H. Canadian Controlled Drug Information
I. Canadian Recommended Immunization Schedules
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: December, 2009
Pages: 1040
Weight: 5g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Nursing
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