Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! (2nd Edition)

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Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

ISBN-10: 0781792894

ISBN-13: 9780781792899

Category: Basic Sciences

Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this book presents everything the nurse and nursing student needs to know 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...

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Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this book presents everything the nurse and nursing student needs to know 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.This thoroughly updated Second edition includes the most current NANDA diagnoses. New chapters cover genitourinary drugs and drugs to treat fluid and electrolyte imbalances. Obesity drugs have been added to the gastrointestinal drugs chapter.

1 Fundamentals of nursing pharmacology 12 Autonomic nervous system drugs 233 Neurologic and neuromuscular drugs 634 Pain medications 1395 Cardiovascular drugs 1816 Respiratory drugs 2617 Gastrointestinal drugs 2918 Genitourinary drugs 3439 Hematologic drugs 36910 Endocrine drugs 40311 Psychotropic drugs 43712 Anti-infective drugs 48313 Anti-inflammatory, antiallergy, and immunosuppressant drugs 57314 Antineoplastic drugs 60115 Drugs for fluid and electrolyte balance 685Glossary 708Ophthalmic and dermatologic drugs 711Abbreviations to avoid 717Vaccines and treatments for biological weapons exposure 718Treatments and antidotes for chemical weapons exposure 719Herbal drugs 720Selected references 723Index 724