Today’s most comprehensive nursing drug guide emphasizes safety 1st!
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, Twelfth Edition always puts safety first…emphasizing the information nurses need to know to administer medications competently and safely…across the lifespan. Well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade name drugs reflect the latest FDA approvals and changes.
Key Features
- Well-structured and readable.
- Organized by generic drug name, with an index that includes generic and trade names, classifications, combination drugs, and herbals.
- An engaging, easy-to-read style.
New to this edition
- NEW! Free, 1-year subscription to Drug Guide Online (DrugGuide.com) featuring over 1,500 complete drug monographs, the latest FDA approvals, and much more (No fee. No password. No registration.).
- NEW! Interactive Flash cards present the generic name of a drug on one side, and the brand name(s) and therapeutic classification on the other.
- NEW! Audio podcasts feature information on how to use Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, evidence-based practice, pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacogenomics, medication errors, special dosing considerations, and educating patients.
- Animations demonstrate the administration and absorption of oral drugs and schematic brain illustrations depict the impact of certain DSM disorders and the effect of psychotropic medications on patients.
- Video Clips illustrate the safe administration of medications.
- Interactive Case Studies develop critical thinking skills through brief “real-life” scenarios followed by a series of questions with answers and rationales.
- Select Tutorials from the Resource Kit CD-ROM provide an evidence-based overview of safe and effective medication administration. (A multiple-choice self-test for each topic helps students assess their mastery.)
- And more!
- NEW & UNIQUE! Pharmacogenomic content.
- UPDATED! Thoroughly reviewed, revised, and updated monographs.
- UPDATED! Evidence-based content related to pharmacotherapeutics.
- UPDATED! Full-color insert, including photographs of “Tall Man,” high alert, and commonly seen drugs.
- NEW! Additional headings for special populations.
- EXPANDED! Herbal content.
- UPDATED! Cost information for 200 top drugs.
- UPDATED! Nursing diagnoses.
- UPDATED! FREE mobile download of 100 complete drug monographs.
Resource Kit CD-ROM (Mac & PC Compatible)
This is not your ordinary drug guide CD-ROM! Completely revised and updated, Davis’s Drug Guide, Twelfth Edition CD-ROM is a complete Resource Kit with tools students and clinicians need to administer medications safety and competently.
UPDATED & UNIQUE! Preventing Medication Errors Tutorial provides:
- a medication safety review
- a self test with “real-life” scenarios
- physician orders
- rationales for correct and incorrect answers
UPDATED & UNIQUE! Psychotropic Drugs Tutorial depicts the safe administration of psychotropic medication and includes monograph content for select psychotropic drugs and a multiple-choice self-test.
UPDATED! Wound Care Tutorial provides a photographic overview of the different types of wounds and wound care products as well as a self-test, with answers and rationales.
UPDATED! FREE, mobile download of 100 complete drug monographs.
UPDATED! Interactive Case Studies offer brief “real-life” scenarios followed by a series of questions. Results can be printed or e-mailed.
UPDATED! Drug Search Program offers easy access to nearly 700 drug monographs with audio pronunciations. (Copy, paste, and print each one.)
NEW! Calculator for Body Mass Index (BMI) as well as calculators for metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage/kg calculations, and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
NEW! Audio Library for nearly 1,000 drug names from the Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses database.
Wound Care Clinical Sheet, pocket sized and printable, offers a quick review of pressure ulcer prevention strategies…
- wound assessment
- pressure ulcer stages and treatment
- wound care products
- more!
NEW and ENHANCED CLINICAL and LEARNING TOOLS
- NEW! Interactive Flash cards.
- UPDATED! Case Studies.
- NEW! Audio podcasts.
- NEW! Calculator for Body Mass Index (BMI).
NEW and ENHANCED TEACHING RESOURCES
- NEW! Electronic Test Bank.
- UPDATED! PowerPoint presentations.
- UPDATED! Case Studies.
- UPDATED! Classroom Activities.
About the Author
- Judith Hopfer Deglin, PharmD, Consultant Pharmacist, Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut, Uncasville, Connecticut.
- April Hazard Vallerand, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan.
- Cynthia A. Sanoski, PharmD, Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Jefferson School of Pharmacy, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Product Details
- Paperback: 1478 pages
- Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 12 edition (June 14, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803623089
- ISBN-13: 978-0803623088
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.8 inches
List Price: $42.95