2017 Nurse’s Drug Handbook

Contents: Reviewers and Clinical Consultants. How to Use This Book. Foreword. 1. Overview of Pharmacology. 2. Principles of Drug Administration. 3. Drug Therapy and the Nursing Process.

Jones & Bartlett Learning 2017 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

The 2017 Nurse’s Drug Handbook includes:

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 teaching points for patients
Mechanism-of-action illustrations
Warnings and precautions
New drug entries include alirocumab, brexpiprazole, cangrelor, cariprazine, edoxaban, eluxadoline, evolocumab, flibanserin, idarucizumab, ivabradine, and mepolizumab. Updates to the appendices include parenteral insulin preparations, selected ophthalmic drugs, selected topical drugs, selected antivirals, selected antineoplastic drugs, and interferons. (jacket)