2019 Nurse’s Drug Handbook

Jones & Bartlett Learning 2019 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 2019 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
Updated antineoplastic appendix
36 full antiviral entries
Antiviral appendix updated to include only combination antivirals
New drugs include: abacavir, abaloparatide, acyclovir, adefovir dipivoxil, angiotensin II, atazanavir, benralizumab, betrixaban, brivaracetam, brodalumab, daclatasvir, darunavir, delafloxacin, dolutegravir, droxidopa, dupilumab, efavirenz, elvitegravir, emtricitabine, enfuvirtide, entecavir, ertugliflozin, etelcalcetide, etravirine, famciclovir, foscarnet sodium, guselkumab, indinavir, lamivudine, letermovir, maraviroc, naldemedine, nelfinavir mesylate, nevirapine, ocrelizumab, oseltamivir phosphate, peramivir, pimavanserin, raltegravir, ribavirin, rilpivirine, ritonavir, safinamide, sarilumab, secnidazole, simeprevir, sofosbuvir, stavudine, telbivudine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, tipranavir, valbenazine, valacyclovir hydrochloride, valganciclovir hydrochloride, zanamivir, and zidovudine. (jacket)