Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This take-anywhere guide offers readers fundamental and advanced administration methods, clarifying photos and illustrations, best practices, patient teaching, equipment close-ups, and alerts highlighted to stand out. Contents include essential concepts, lifespan considerations, nursing process, legal and ethical concerns, medication orders and errors, measurement systems and dosage calculations, documentation, chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, blood and blood products, drugs that shouldn't be crushed, dialyzable drugs, antidotes for vesicant extravasation, I.V. drug compatibility chart, and topical, ophthalmic, otic, nasal, respiratory, buccal, sublingual, translingual, oral, gastric, rectal, vaginal, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, and specialized administration methods.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483) and index.