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2021 Nurse’s Drug Handbook
Author: Jones & Bartlett LearningOVERVIEW
Take 2021 Nurse’s Drug Handbook wherever you go with the convenient and easy-to-use app for Android and iPhone, and iPad. Try the app free for 30 days!
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.
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
