Description

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)

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