In this text, pharmacology facts and fundamentals are presented for nurses, with information on drug classification and administration (organized by body system and class), interactions, and reactions. Each explanation also describes nursing process steps, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics. Pain medications, anti-infective drugs, anti-inflammatory, and anti-allergy drugs are included. This edition incorporates new chapters on drugs used to treat fluid and electrolyte imbalance and genitourinary drugs, coverage of obesity medications, and an appendix on herbal remedies. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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.
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.
