A comprehensive pharmacology text with a nursing practice focus that covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to deliver safe and effective drug therapy. This text categorizes drugs and groups of drugs according to their therapeutic effects on particular body systems and presents specific nursing actions for administering drugs and rationale for those actions. The easy-to-understand organization of this text is designed to help nurses anticipate therapeutic and adverse effects of drug administration and apply this new drug knowledge to actual patient care. New features in this edition include a discussion of special drug therapy considerations, updated drug information including more than 100 new drugs and expanded indications for use of older drugs. Also included is a new unit on immunotherapy, expanded information on drug studies, effects of ethnicity on drug actions, biotechnology as a source of drugs, and expanded coverage of recent developments in cellular physiology. Review and application exercises conclude each chapter to enhance understanding of the material and new appendices covering SI Units, Therapeutic Drug Levels and Canadian drug names are provided to help nurses understand drug administration in a variety of care settings. A separate study guide is also available.

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice

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Anne Collins Abrams

Nursing

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

This popular core nursing pharmacology textbook provides unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentation, the text explains the "why" behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Eighth Edition are case studies integrated into each chapter with case-based questions that foster critical thinking. New Research Briefs summarize current research and its nursing implications. A new chapter covers drugs for obesity, and all nutrition products have been consolidated into one chapter. New NCLEX®-style questions appear at the end of each drug chapter.

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice (Field Guide)

Sandra Smith Pennington

Carol Barnett Lammon

This popular core nursing pharmacology textbook provides unique coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentation, the text explains the "why" behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Eighth Edition are case studies integrated into each chapter with case-based questions that foster critical thinking. New Research Briefs summarize current research and its nursing implications. A new chapter covers drugs for obesity, and all nutrition products have been consolidated into one chapter. New NCLEX®-style questions appear at the end of each drug chapter.

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice: Instructor's Resource

A popular core nursing pharmacology textbook, Clinical Drug Therapy provides unique coverage of nurisng interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentaion, the text emplains the why behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Eighth Edition are case studies integrated into each chapter with case-based questions that foster critical thinking. New Research Briefs summarize current research and its nursing implications. A new chapter covers drugs for obesity, and all nutrition products have been consolidated into one chapter. New NCLEX-style questions appear at the end of each drug chapter. Updated with dozens of newly approved drugs and indications, Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide 2007 provides quick access to current, comprehensive, vital drug information. It contains over 800 complete drug monographs, organized alphabetically, plus a full-color photoguide to pills and capsules and 24 rapid-reference appendices appropriate for practicing nurses. This edition includes eleven new monographs on recently approved drugs. New appendices cover dialyzable drugs and treatments for biological and chemical weapons exposure.

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Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice (Field Guide)

Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice: Instructor's Resource

Clinical Drug Therapy, 8e + 2007 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Gde Pkg