A new and updated version of this best-selling resource!
Jones and Bartlett Learning 2012 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference.
Updated annually, it provides:
* Accurate, timely facts on hundreds of drugs from abacavir sulfate to Zyvox
* Concise, consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically
* No-nonsense writing style that speaks your language in terms you use everyday
* Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names for quick reference
* Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule
* Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information
* Incompatibilities, contraindications; interactions with drugs, food, and activities; and adverse reactions
* Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points
* Vital features include mechanism-of-action illustrations showing how drugs at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels and dosage adjustments help individualize care for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs
* Warnings and precautions that keep you informed and alert
New drug entries include:
* Anti-Inhibitor Coagulant Complex
* Ceftaroline
* Dabigatran
* Deferoxamine
* Denosumab
* Everolimus
* Ferumoxytol
* Fingolimod
* Ibandronate
* Lurasidone Dydrochloride
* Pegloticase
* Tesamorelin