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2021 Nurse’s Drug Handbook

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The Jones & Bartlett Learning 2021 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a straightforward style with approachable terminology, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

Features and Benefits

  • Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names
  • Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedule
  • Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information
  • Incompatibilities and contraindications
  • Interactions with drugs, food, and activities
  • Adverse reactions
  • Nursing considerations, including key teaching points for patients
  • Mechanism-of-action illustrations
  • Warnings and precautions
  • Updated appendices, including Uncommon Drugs
  • Bolded life-threatening Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)

New drugs added to the 2021 Nurse’s Drug Handbook include: Alemtuzumab, Avatrombopag, Ce derocol, Cenobamate, Crizanlizumab-tmca, Diroximel, Esketamine, Ferric maltol, Istradefylline, Lefamulin, Levamlodipine, Lumateperone, Risankizumab-rzaa, Romosozumab-aqqg, Siponimod, Solriamfetol.

Note: Previous edition 9781284167900

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Reviewers and Clinical Consultants
  • How to Use This Book
  • Foreword
  • Overview of Pharmacology
  • Principles of Drug Administration
  • Drug Therapy and the Nursing Process
  • Individual Drugs (Listed Alphabetically)
  • Appendix  Safety Guidelines for Opioid Use
  • Appendix  Parenteral Insulin Preparations
  • Appendix  Oral Allergen Extracts
  • Appendix  Selected Antihistamines
  • Appendix  Selected Ophthalmic Drugs
  • Appendix  Selected Topical Drugs
  • Appendix  Selected Combination Antiviral Drugs
  • Appendix  Common Cancers and Antineoplastic Drug Therapy
  • Appendix  Selected Antihypertensive Cominations
  • Appendix  Selected Obstetrical Drugs
  • Appendix  Vitamins
  • Appendix  Interferons
  • Appendix  Compatible Drugs in a Syringe
  • Appendix  Drug Formulas and Calculations
  • Appendix  Weights and Equivalents
  • Appendix  Equianalgesic Doses for Opioid Agonists
  • Appendix  Abbreviations

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