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Nurse's Drug Handbook

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ISBN-10: 0071756094

ISBN-13: 9780071756099

Edition: 6th 2011

Authors: Patricia Schull

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Book details

List price: $31.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 3/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1434
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Patricia Dwyer Schull, MSN, RNhas been in the medical publishing business for more than twenty years. Prior to establishing MedVantage Publishing, Patricia held executive management positions with the top medical publishers in the world, managing major business units with annual budgets up to $72 million. Before entering the publishing business, Patricia worked in healthcare as a professional nurse.

Foreword
Advisors
Contributors and reviewers
Preface and user's guide
Drug monographs A to Z
Safe drug administration
Drug compatibilities
Conversions and calculations
Drug names that look or sound alike
Tall Man Letters
Tablets and capsules not to crush
Identifying injectin sites
Monitoring blood levels
Effects of dialysis on drug therapy
Anaphylaxis: Treatment guidelines
Adult cardiac arrest: Treatment guidelines
Pediatric cardiac arrest: Treatment guidelines
Acute coronary syndrome: Treatment guidelines
Preventing and treating extravasation
Guidelines for handling, preparing, and administering hazardous drugs
Managing poisons and overdoses
Photogallery of common tablets and capsules
Drug classes
Vitamins and minerals
Herbs and supplements
Appendices
Common anesthetic drugs
Common combination drugs products
Adult immunization schedule by age group
Childhood immunization schedule by age group
Adolescent immunization schedule by age group
Normal laboratory values for blood tests
Drug infusion rates
Identifying life-threatening adverse reactions
Potentially inappropriate drugs for elderly patients
Hazardous drugs
Drugs that prolong the QT interval
Most commonly used drugs in nursing specialties
Top 200 most commonly presceibed drugs