Jones and Bartlett Learning 2013 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 abatacept to zonisamide
* 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
* 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 and contraindications
* Interactions with drugs, food, and activities
* Adverse reactions
* Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points
* Mechanism-of-action illustrations
* Warnings and precautions
New drug entries include:
* azilsartan medoxomil
* belatacept
* clobazam
* deferiprone
* ezogabine
* Factor XIII
* fidaxomicin
* icatibant
* linagliptin
* roflumilast
* ticagrelor
* vilazodone