Study Guide for Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach

Corresponding to the chapters in McCuistion’s Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach, 9th Edition, this hands-on study guide offers engaging activities to help you review and remember essential nursing pharmacology. Exercises include study questions, case studies, and NCLEX® Examination–style review questions. This new edition also features additional alternate item format questions including multiple response, fill-in-the-blank calculations, and ordered response questions. It’s an essential tool in helping you apply your knowledge of pharmacology to clinical practice, develop pharmacology-related clinical reasoning skills, and master safe drug administration.

• Detailed case studies enhance users’ understanding of nursing responsibilities in therapeutic pharmacology.
• Drug calculations chapter follows the outline of the main-text chapter to help users test their knowledge and skill in drug dosage calculation.
• Focus on safety includes a special icon that calls attention to questions related to safe patient care.
• Sample drug labels have been updated using the new drug labels from the main text.
• Answers for all exercises are provided at the back of the book to facilitate self-study. Rationales are also included for all application-level questions and case study questions.

• NEW! Updated content reflects the latest content that is in the textbook.
• NEW! Expanded NCLEX focus features additional alternate item format NCLEX-style questions in addition to the existing application-level and alternate-item questions.

Professor (Ret.), University of Holy Cross, New Orleans, Louisiana

Professor Emerita Kathleen Vuljoin DiMaggio
works at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Associate Professor Mary B. Winton works at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas.

Associate Professor Jennifer J. Yeager works at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas.