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Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

18th Edition

Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses®, Eighteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan— 643 well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.

Its nursing-focused ‘Cure & Care’ ‘Cure’ approach makes it the ideal resource for both student and practicing nurses by delivering exactly what they need to know to provide the very best care for their patients. ‘Cure’ explains what the drug does, while ‘Care’ describes what the nurse does and how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics.

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Key Features
  • Ideal for both nursing school programs and practicing nurses
  • ‘Cure’ and ‘Care’ organization of monographs that makes must-know information easy to find and apply
  • Focus on patient safety throughout, including red tabs for ‘High Alert’ drugs, red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects, and special considerations for patient populations
  • Free, 1-year access to DrugGuide.com, Davis’s Drug Guide Online, powered by Unbound Medicine, a database of over 7,200 drugs and FDA news alerts
  • Canadian-specific content, identified by a maple leaf, including Canadian trade names and drugs specifically approved for use in Canada
  • A wealth of free online resources, including an audio pronunciation library, calculators, and video clips that illustrate the safe administration of medications
New To This Edition
  • NEW, UPDATED & REVISED! All monographs rigorously reviewed to include the most up-to-date information, new, FDA-approved drugs and drugs approved for use in Canada
  • NEW & UPDATED! 25 brand-new monographs, 643 in all, plus an additional 16 mini-monographs in Appendix A.
  • NEW, UPDATED & REVISED! Information on considerations for special populations
Table of Contents
HOW TO USE DAVIS’S DRUG GUIDE FOR NURSES
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS: Implications for Nurses
PHARMACOGENOMICS
MEDICATION ERRORS: Improving Practices and Patient Safety
DETECTING AND MANAGING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
OVERVIEW OF RISK EVALUATION AND MITIGATION SYSTEMS (REMS)
SPECIAL DOSING CONSIDERATIONS
THE CYTOCHROME P450 SYSTEM: What Is It and Why Should I Care?
EDUCATING PATIENTS ABOUT SAFE MEDICATION USE
CLASSIFICATIONS
DRUG MONOGRAPHS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY GENERIC NAME
DRUGS APPROVED IN CANADA
NATURAL/HERBAL PRODUCTS
MEDICATION SAFETY TOOLS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
COMPREHENSIVE GENERIC/TRADE/CLASSIFICATIONS INDEX

APPENDICES
A. Recent Drug Approvals
B. Ophthalmic Medications
C. Medication Administration Techniques
D. Administering Medications to Children
E. Formulas Helpful for Calculating Doses
F. Pediatric Dosage Calculations
G. Normal Values of Common Laboratory Tests
H. Controlled Substance Schedules
I. Equianalgesic Dosing Guidelines
J. Food Sources for Specific Nutrients
K. Insulins and Insulin Therapy
L. Differences in U.S. and Canadian Pharmaceutical Practices
M. Routine Pediatric and Adult Immunizations
N. Combination Drugs (Available online at FADavis.com)
Specifications

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses (min. 15) (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-7196-4640-6
Author: April Hazard Vallerand and Cynthia A. Sanoski
© 2023
Page Count: 1504
Binding: Softcover

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