BookApril Hazard Vallerand, Cynthia A. Sanoski
Summary: This guide delivers everything needed to administer medications safely across the lifespan - well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names. The guide's nursing-focused "Cure & Care"' approach makes it the ideal resource for both student and practicing nurses by delivering what they need to know to provide the very best care for their patients. "Cure" explains what the drug does, while "Care" describes what the nurse does, and explains how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics
Contents:
How to use Davis's Drug Guide For Nurses
Evidence-based practice and pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacogenomics
Medication errors : improving practices and patient safety
Detecting and managing adverse drug reactions
Overview of risk evaluation and mitigation systems (REMS)
Special dosing considerations
The Cytochrome P450 system : what is it and why should I care?
Educating patients about safe medication use
Classifications
Drug monographs in alphabetical order by generic name
Drugs approved in Canada
Natural/herbal products
Medication safety tools
Appendices
Limited to 2 simultaneous users