9780201092783: Drug Handbook: A Nursing Process Approach

Synopsis

Practicing nurses use drug handbooks as a source for quick reference in the clinical setting. A handbook is used many times daily by student nurses during the clinical learning experience and by practicing nurses to validate generic and trade-name medications, doses, and side effects. A readily available and easily carried drug handbook is a necessity for the home-care nurse. This handbook is a helpful reference to all student, clinical, and home-care nurses. Some of the features of the handbook include nursing-process applications, sample care plans, drug clification overviews, precaution grids for each drug, outcome criteria, and patient and family teaching.

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Synopsis

Guidelines and examples that review the nursing process with regard to the administration of medications in the clinical setting are followed by key concepts for important drug classes and (the bulk of the book) an alphabetical listing of drugs by generic name with essential information action, use, dose range and administration, contraindications,

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