Safety! Eliminate drug administration errors with: • Safety Alerts • Black Box Warnings for dangerous reactions • Common and life-threatening side effects organized by body system • IV drug dosage and administration instructions Accuracy! Improve patient care with: • More than 5000 monographs for generic and trade-name drugs • Details on more than 30 NEW FDA-approved drugs • Thousands of new drug facts and updates • Nursing considerations
Description
Choose the drug handbook trusted by nurses for more than 35 years! Mosby’s 2023 Nursing Drug Reference makes it easy to find the most vital information on the drugs you administer most frequently. More than 5,000 drugs are profiled — including 35 new entries for drugs recently approved by the FDA. And no other drug guide places a higher emphasis on patient safety, with Black Box Warnings for dangerous adverse reactions, Safety Alerts for situations requiring special attention, and a focus on both common and life-threatening side effects. From nursing pharmacology expert Linda Skidmore-Roth, this perennial bestseller proves there is a difference in drug guides.
Key Features
- More than 5,000 generic and trade-name drugs are profiled, covering almost every drug you will administer in practice or in clinicals.
- Safety Alert icon highlights the most critical drug interactions and side effects.
- Black Box Warnings provide alerts to FDA warnings of dangerous or life-threatening drug reactions.
- Nursing Process steps are used as the framework for organizing all nursing care information.
- Coverage of IV drug administration highlights dosage and IV administration instructions, including safety considerations and Y-site, syringe, and additive compatibilities.
- Side effects information is organized by body system and identified as common or life threatening, showing signs to watch for during assessments.
- Alphabetical organization by generic name provides quick and easy access to specific drugs, and a full-color design highlights important information.
- Complete pharmacokinetic information includes the mechanism and absorption of the drug as well as its action, duration, and excretion.
- Overview of drug categories explains the safe administration of common classes of drugs, as well as their common side effects and interactions.
- Flexible, water-resistant cover provides durability in the clinical setting.
About the Author
Linda Skidmore-Roth
Linda Skidmore-Roth, RN, MSN, NP has been the lead author of Mosby’s Nursing Drug Reference for more than 25 years and as such is synonymous with the Mosby imprint as a trusted name in nursing pharmacology information
Affiliations and Expertise
Consultant, Littleton, Colorado; Former Nursing Faculty, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico; El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas
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