Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

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Now in its Fourth Edition, Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! contains everything health care practitioners need to review and students need to learn about calculating drug dosages. This entertaining and informative reference reviews the basic math needed to perform dosage calculation, including fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. It walks the nurse through the interpretation of hundreds of examples of drug orders and the performance of hundreds of complex dosage calculations, and provides information on deciphering difficult abbreviations, dealing with unclear handwriting, reading medication labels, selecting administration equipment, and more. Special elements found throughout the book make it easy to remember key points. Purchasers of this edition will also have access to the newest information on drugs at www.edruginfo.com.

Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook

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Nursing2009 Student Drug Handbook is a comprehensive A-to-Z drug reference designed for nursing students. The book contains chapters on drug therapy and the nursing process, essentials of dosage calculations, drug administration routes (illustrated), and drug administration safety. This student guide also has a section of monographs on common drug classes (with prototype drugs highlighted). Every monograph for individual drugs has information organized by the nursing process. These consistently formatted monographs cover generic and trade names, pronunciations, pharmacologic and therapeutic class, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), indications and dosages with Adjust-a-dose for special populations, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on lab test results, pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and tables with route, onset, peak, and duration), drug action, available forms, and the nursing process (assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning and implementation, patient teaching, evaluation). A companion Website includes over 300 NCLEX-style questions, including alternate-format questions.

Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!

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Now in its second edition, Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! contains everything the nurse needs to review and the nursing student needs to learn about how drugs act and interact in the treatment of disease. The book focuses on mechanisms of drug action; details specific drugs by pharmacologic class; reviews the nursing process related to each drug category for all body systems, plus pain medications, anti-infective drugs, and cancer drugs; and highlights potentially dangerous interactions, including drug-herb interactions. It does all of this in the award-winning, light-hearted Incredibly Easy! style that makes intimidating concepts thoroughly approachable.