The fourth edition of this step-by-step manual will teach you how to write clear, complete and easy-to-follow admitting orders. It discusses the components of a 'perfect' admitting order and explains the importance of each element. You are provided with samples of admitting orders for over 70 common medical conditions. The final section offers helpful prescribing information on over 500 drugs, divided into categories to help you locate a drug quickly and easily. The perfect companion to any medical text, Manual of Admitting Orders and Therapeutics, 4th Edition takes a systematic approach to the process of writing admitting disorders and succeeds. By offering such clear guidelines, this book helps you to complete admitting disorders more quickly but also helps you to eliminate confusion in patient care and improve staff efficiency.

Sample orders include a rationale for each entry demonstrating its purpose

A section on therapeutic agents serves as a convenient, up-to-date source of information when writing medication orders

The principles illustrated by the sample admitting orders are applicable to all aspects of medical order writing, including revisions of original orders and verbal orders

Contains the latest information about medical order writing and related drugs and procedures

New orders for AIDS, unstable angina, myocardial infarction and others are included to reflect the latest developments in medical treatments

New diagnoses have been added to reflect changing patterns in the illnesses most commonly encountered

About the Author

Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, University of Washington Medical Center, Office of Medical Director, Seattle, WA; W. Conrad Liles, Jr., MD, PhD, University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA; and James Willems, MD, University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA

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