Focus on Nursing Pharmacology - Softcover

Karch, Amy M.; Lynn, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0781790476 ISBN 13: 9780781790475

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007

Synopsis

In its updated Fourth Edition, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects.

Each chapter opens with learning objectives and ends with NCLEX®-style and other questions. Illustrations, tables, side bars, and boxes summarize concepts and focus attention on critical thinking, patient safety, evidence-based practice, lifespan issues, patient teaching, and case study-based critical thinking exercises.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a video on medication administration, NCLEX®-style questions, and additional learning tools.

About this title

Review:

School of Health Sciences, Swansea University, Sue Jordan, Senior lecturer, -- "This book is one of the few to detail nursing care related to medication administration". Queen's University Belfast, Student Nurse -- "As part of my course focuses on pharmacology I was delighted when this book was given to me and I wasn't disappointed as the book dealt with quite a difficult and varied subject in a clear and precise manner."

About this edition

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0781790476
• ISBN 13: 9780781790475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1072