This market-leading text is known for presenting challenging content in a clear and consistent format that is engaging and readable. With an eye-catching design, full-color illustrations, and helpful, practical boxed features that highlight need-to-know information, the new edition of this bestseller continues its tradition of making pharmacology easy to learn and understand.
• A focus on prioritization identifies key nursing information and helps in preparation for the NCLEX® Examination.
• Presents drugs and their classes as they relate to different parts of the body, facilitating integration of the text with your other nursing courses.
• Features numerous full-color photos and illustrations pertaining to drug mechanisms of action and step-by-step illustrations depicting key steps in drug administration for various routes, so you can clearly see how drugs work in the body and how to administer medications safely and effectively.
• Drug Profiles highlight the pharmacokinetics and unique variations of individual drugs.
• Includes Patient Teaching Tips in each chapter to foster patient compliance and effective drug therapy.
• Helpful summary boxes are integrated throughout, covering Evidence-Based Practice, Preventing Medication Errors, Laboratory Values Related to Drug Therapy, Cultural Implications, Herbal Therapies, Life Span • Considerations, Points to Remember, and Legal and Ethical Principles.
• Illustrated Study Skills Tips in each unit cover study tips, time management, and test taking strategies related specifically to nursing pharmacology.
• Includes a convenient tear-out IV Compatibilities Chart that alerts you to drugs that are incompatible when given intravenously.