BookLaura D. Rosenthal, Jacqueline Rosenjack Burchum.
Summary: "Lehne's Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants, 2nd Edition, builds on the same foundation of clearly explained, up-to-date, and clinically current content as the trusted Lehne undergraduate text, while focusing on the information that advanced practice nurses and Physician Assistants specifically need for safe and effective prescribing. Three introductory chapters provide foundational content for new prescribers in the areas of prescriptive authority, rational drug selection, prescription writing, and promoting positive outcomes of drug therapy. Core drug chapters are focused on the drugs that prescribers will most commonly see in clinical practice. A sharp focus is also placed on pharmacotherapeutic decision-making, with Black Box Warnings and new bulleted Key Prescribing Considerations features. Carefully focused pharmacotherapeutic content reflects the drugs most commonly seen and used by prescribers, with emphasis not on the first drug discovered or developed in each class but on the agents most often used today. Primary care drugs are addressed first in each chapter as appropriate, followed by acute care drugs. The second edition features completely new chapters on Genetic and Genomic Considerations, Muscarinic Antagonists and Immunomodulators, and updated content throughout. It's everything advanced practice nursing and Physician Assistant students need to be safe and effective prescribers!"--taken from publisher description.
Contents:
Unit I. Introduction
Unit II. Basic principles of pharmacology
Unit III. Drug therapy across the life span
Unit IV. Peripheral nervous system drugs
Unit V. Central nervous system drugs
Unit VI. Drugs for pain
Unit VII. Psychotherapeutic drugs
Unit VIII. Substance use disorders
Unit IX. Drugs that affect the heart, blood vessels, blood, and blood volume
Unit X. Drugs for endocrine disorders
Unit XI. Women's health
Unit XII. Men's health
Unit XIII. Antiinflammatory, antiallergic, and immunologic drugs
Unit XIV. Drugs for bone and joint disorders
Unit XV. Respiratory tract drugs
Unit XVI. Gastrointestinal drugs
Unit XVII. Nutrition and complementary therapies
Unit XVIII. Therapy of infectious and parasitic diseases
Unit XIX. Cancer therapy
Unit XX. Drugs for eyes, ears, and skin
Unit XXI. Drug therapy for acute care.