Focus on Nursing Pharmacology W/CD Author:Amy M. Karch Now in its Third Edition, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book methodically explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, ensuring that students fully understand this important content. — Each chapt... more »er includes drug summary tables (with dosages), Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes, all-inclusive nursing care guides based on a typical case study with critical thinking tips and patient teaching checklists. Each chapter ends with NCLEX®-style questions and other questions to form a mini-study guide.
New to this edition are Prototype Drug boxes with details on prototype drugs; Focus on the Evidence boxes promoting evidence-based practice; mid-chapter Focus Points summaries of key content; Focus on Patient Safety emphasizing the importance of delivering medications correctly to the patient; and increased pharmacokinetics information.
A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a free video on medication administration, additional NCLEX®-style questions, and other learning tools.« less