Prentice Hall Nurse's Drug Guide 2007: Retail (NURSING DRUG GUIDE) - Softcover

Wilson, Billie Ann; Shannon, Margaret T.; Shields, Kelly M.; Stang, Carolyn L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132433486 ISBN 13: 9780132433488

Publisher: Pearson, 1848

Synopsis

A standard resource for nurses, this unique book provides safe, effective, current, and accurate drug administration information in a quickly accessible format. This retail edition includes the suggested list price printed on the back cover.  Includes 21 new drugs added as approved by the FDA and over 200 updates / revisions made to existing drugs. Comprehensive and complete, all drugs are listed alphabetically by generic names for quick referral, with an index that includes both generic and trade names. An easy-to-use dosage information disk is included to provide nurses with monographs of the most commonly prescribed and dispensed drugs and prototype drugs. Nursing professionals and students.

About this title

About the Author

Billie Ann Wilson is currently Professor and Director of the Department of Nursing at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to entering nursing, she taught natural and physical sciences at the secondary and collegiate levels. She holds a BS in Biology from Boston College, an MS in Biology from Purdue University, a BS in Nursing from Northwestern State University of Louisiana, an MSRI from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Orleans.

 

Margaret T. Shannon is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at Our Lady of Holy Cross College, New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a BS and an MS in Chemistry, both from Saint Louis University; an MA in Teaching Biology from Saint Mary’s College, a BS in Nursing from Northwestern State University of Louisiana, an MSN from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Orleans. Prior to entering nursing, she taught physical science, natural science, and mathematics at the secondary and collegiate levels.

 

Kelly M. Shields is currently Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from Butler University, and completed a fellowship in Natural Product Information and Research at University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has practiced pharmacy in retail, community, and academic settings and has worked as a freelance medical writer.

 

Carolyn L. Stang is currently Vice President for Clinical Program Development at Caremark Inc. She has worked in hospital and community pharmacies, home health care, and the pharmaceutical industry. She holds a BS in Pharmacy from The Ohio State University, and a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Tennessee, Memphis, and completed a fellowship in Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

From the Back Cover

Nurses agree Prentice Hall Nurse's Drug Guide 20 07 provides all the information you need for safe, effective drug administration in any setting!

 

√ Electronic Drug Calculator on CD-Rom

√ PDA Download at NO EXTRA COST

√ Provides detailed dosage infromation for clients of all ages

√ Explains all drug interactions drug-drug, drug-food, & drug-herbal

√ Clearly identifies IV Preparation and Administration, including Push, Continuous, or Intermittent

 

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Available for your PDA

With the touch of a stylus, you can search for and access drug information quickly and easily, right at the point of care.  You can jump to availability, route & dosages, administration, adverse effects, contraindications, interactions, uses, ttherapeutic effects, and nursing implications, including assessmetn & drug effects, monitoring laborattory tests, and patient & family education.  Ther is even a tool box with appendices, glossary of signs & symptoms, abbreviations, and more.  

 

Compatible with Palm™ OS 3.1 or higher adn PocketPC 2002 or later.  For more information or a limited trial, go to www.prenhall.com/drugguides

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1848
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132433486
• ISBN 13: 9780132433488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1876