Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

12th Ed. ©2011 F.A. Davis Company
Authors/Editors: Judith Hopfer Deglin, PharmD, April Hazard Vallerand, PhD, RN, FAAN & Cynthia Sanoski, BS, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS
ISBN: 0803623097 | 9780803623095
Subjects: Nursing, Pharmacology & Pharmacy
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Overview

The information nurses need, when, where and how they need it! Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, Twelfth Edition always puts safety first emphasizing the information nurses need to know to administer medications competently and safely across the lifespan. Well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade name drugs reflect the latest FDA approvals and changes.

Features:

  • New and updated content
  • Pharmacogenomic content
  • Thoroughly reviewed, revised and updated monographs
  • Evidence-based content related to pharmacotherapeutics
  • Full-color insert, including photographs of “Tall Man,” high alert and commonly seen drugs
  • Additional headings for special populations
  • Expanded herbal content
  • Updated cost information for 200 top drugs
  • Updated nursing diagnoses
  • Patient safety and preventing medication errors
  • More high-alert coverage and patient safety information than any other drug guide
  • Life-threatening side effects
  • Drug-drug, drug-natural products and drug-food interactions
  • How to administer medication safely by all routes, with information on preparation and mixture of oral meds, methods for parenteral administration, toxicity and signs of overdose, dosing considerations for patients with renal or hepatic impairment and much more!
  • Thorough Patient and Family Teaching Guidelines

This title updates: Quarterly

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Authors

Judith Hopper Deglin, PharmD
Consultant Pharmacist
Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut
Uncasville, Connecticut & University of Connecticut
School of Pharmacy
Storrs, Connecticut

April Hazard Vallerand, PhD, RN, FAAN
Wayne State University
College of Nursing
Detroit, Michigan

Cynthia Sanoski, BS, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS
Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Jefferson School of Pharmacy, Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Doody's Review Service American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy