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Quick A-to-Z Access to Current, Accurate Drug Information!
The Lippincott Drug Guide 2011 with Web Resources, the comprehensive nursing drug guide for nurses and students, is now updated with more than 1,200 additions and changes to provide the most accurate drug information available.
This comprehensive drug guide incorporates the nursing process to provide extensive medication information, with complete monographs on 800 common drugs - including 15 new drugs - and appendices that summarize key information on about 350 less commonly used drugs. Organized alphabetically by generic drug name for fast access to the information you need, this resource helps you prevent drug errors and administer medications safely and accurately.
The information you need - when you need it!
The Lippincott Nursing Drug Guide 2011 offers:
More than 1,200 new additions, changes, and updates on indications, dosages, and administration Complete monographs containing generic and trade names, pronunciations, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule, drug classes, therapeutic actions, indications, contraindications and cautions, available forms, dosages, pharmacokinetics, IV facts, adverse effects, interactions, and nursing considerations - including assessment, interventions, teaching points. A new graphic "alert" symbol for drugs that cannot be crushed, cut, or chewed A 32-page full-color photo guide to pills and capsules Icons identifying dangerous drugs and new indications Interactions by drug-drug, drug-food, drug-lab tests, and drug-alternative therapy An appendix for best practices on disposal of medications An appendix of patient teaching to prevent medication errors An appendix with mini-monographs on over 200 less commonly used drugs
On the companion website - NEW drug information and resources! 200 drug monographs Continuing Education tests Patient-teaching aids Reference tools
Synopsis
A comprehensive, annual guide for practicing nurses and nursing students, 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide provides quick A-to-Z access to current, vital drug information. The book has complete monographs on about 800 common drugs and appendices summarizing key information on about 350 less commonly used drugs. Complete monographs contain generic and trade names, pronunciations, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if appropriate), drug classes, therapeutic actions, indications, contraindications and cautions, available forms, dosages, pharmacokinetics, IV facts (if appropriate), adverse effects, interactions, nursing considerations (including assessment, interventions, teaching points).
Synopsis
With over 1,200 updates on new drugs, indications, dosages, and administration,
2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide provides quick A-to-Z access to current, comprehensive drug information. It contains complete monographs on about 800 common drugs and appendices summarizing key information on about 350 less commonly used drugs. The book also has a 32-page full-color photoguide to pills and capsules and multiple appendices that summarize key clinical information. This edition includes information on more than 15 new drugs and a graphic symbol alert for drugs that cannot be crushed, cut, or chewed.
A companion website offers 200 drug monographs and patient-teaching aids, plus Continuing Education tests and valuable appendices.
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• 9780781793858 Taylor Skill Checklists for Fundamentals of Nursing
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• 9781609132378 Karch 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide with Web Resources
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· 9780781771948 Fischbach A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, North America Edition
· 9780781785907 Smeltzer Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing North American Edition
· 9780781776288 Buchholz Henke's Med-Math, North American Edition
· 9781609132378 Karch 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide with Web Resources
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This package contains:
- Karch, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Fifth Edition (978-0-7817-8982-0)
- Karch, 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide with Web Resources (978-1-60913-237-8)
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This package contains the following products:
· 9780781776288 Buchholz Henke's Med-Math: Dosage Calculation, Preparation and Administration, North American Edition
· 978-0-7817-8589-1 Smeltzer Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing (combine vol)
· 9781608312030 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott's Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Medical-Surgical/Cr
· 9781609132378 Karch 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide with Web Resources
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This package contains the following products:
- 9780781795180 Lynn Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills
- 9780781793834 Taylor Fundamentals of Nursing, North American Edition
- 9780781793841 Lynn Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills, North American Edition
- 9781609132378 Karch 2011 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide with Web Resources
- 9781608311491 Taylor Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills, Student Set
Table of Contents
Contents
Consultants vii
Preface ix
Anatomy of a monograph xiii
Guide to abbreviations xvii
Author's acknowledgments xxi
Nursing process guidelines 1
Preventing medication errors 7
Pharmacologic classes 10
Alphabetical listing of drugs by generic name 64
Appendices 1249
- Appendix A Alternative and complementary therapies 1250
- Appendix B Preventing miscommunication 1260
- Appendix C Patient teaching to prevent medication errors 1262
- Appendix D Important dietary guidelines for patient teaching 1263
- Appendix E Drugs that interact with grapefruit juice 1264
- Appendix F Intramuscular and subcutaneous routes of administration 1265
- Appendix G Medication disposal guidelines 1267
- Appendix H Calculating pediatric dosages 1268
- Appendix I Recommended pediatric immunizations 1269
- Appendix J Recommended adult immunizations 1270
- Appendix K Federal drug classifications 1271 FDA pregnancy categories 1271 DEA schedules of controlled substances 1271
- Appendix L Cardiovascular guidelines 1272
- Appendix M Normal laboratory values 1273
- Appendix N Canadian drug information 1275 Narcotics, controlled drugs, benzodiazepines, and other targeted substances 1275 Adverse reaction reporting: Pharmaceuticals, biologics, natural health products, radiopharmaceuticals 1277 Canada Vigilance Regional Offices 1279
- Appendix O Commonly used Canadian drugs 1280
- Appendix P Topical drugs 1283
- Appendix Q Ophthalmic drugs 1294
- Appendix R Laxatives 1300
- Appendix S Combination products by therapeutic class 1304
- Appendix T Frequently used combination products by trade name 1332
- Appendix U Hormonal contraceptives 1344
- Appendix V Commonly used biologicals 1348
- Appendix W Less commonly used drugs 1383
Bibliography 1427
Index 1429
A quick-access full-color photoguide to pills and capsules is found between pages 746 and 747.