Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses

It's Like Having an Experienced Nurse at Your Side! The new Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 9th Edition contains well-organized monographs with an emphasis on what students and nurses need to know. This new edition has even more new monographs, including the latest FDA approvals, in 50 comprehensive drug classes-with herbals in a separate class. Safety First! More Patient Safety Information than any other Drug Guide: * Do not confuse with caution statements, including 300 new alerts, highlighted in color throughout. * Do not crush, break, or chew caution statements also highlighted in color. * Side effects organized by body systems with the most frequent problems underlined and Life-Threatening problems capitalized and in color. * Specific nursing actions help you prevent administration errors, detect dosing and dispensing errors, and detect or prevent adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses takes Patient Safety a step further with expanded High Alert Coverage: * A special highlighted tab identifies High Alert medications according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, an FDA MedWatch partner. * Highlighted information throughout the monograph explains why a medication is high alert and what you can do to ensure patient safety. Organized within a Nursing Process framework to help you plan care! (For more reasons why Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 9th Edition is your best choice, see New Features at a Glance in the front of the book!).Deglin, Judith Hopfer is the author of 'Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses', published 2004 under ISBN 9780803611542 and ISBN 0803611544.