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I had purchased some others... I wish I would have bought the Davis Drug Guide first... I would have saved some money. I am a nursing student and I can't imagine school without this... I love it.
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 13, 2003
New in nursing school, my first instructor told my class that she liked Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. I bought it for my own use. I have found all my questions about drugs and their uses, etc. answered in my Davis Drug Guide. It is much like a blanky for me, in that I know work registry and every facility I go to have a few new drugs, that they use, that are new to me, and I always find it in my drug guide. I like the paper that is used, it reminds me of the quality of the content and the materials I hold in my hands. The guide opens and lays flat for me, so that I don't need 4 hands to quickly look up the information I need. The book cover is always impressive and wears well.
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Posted April 20, 2000
This book was very helpful. It had many of the new drugs and many different names for the existing drugs as other books did not. Easily read and understood.
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Posted March 2, 2000
Whether working in an acute care setting or just in need of clear and concise pharmaceutical information, this is the best and most complete available. Where other drug references are formated by drug classification, which often entails having to go to the index, this book is arranged alphabetically by generic drug names. The emergency IV drug tables are readily available as are the 'new' drug information sections. This is THE drug book of choice for professionals.
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Posted September 27, 2011
The information is NOT very clear. This book as all eTexbooks can ONLY be used in a computer. You will not be able to read this book with you nook.that was my answer after 1/2 hour of been transfered from one operator to another to digital support. They say they will return my money back. They were all were very nice, but the first 2 employes had no idea eTexbook will not work with Nook. to bad this is a clinical book most nurses need it handy on the floor!
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Posted August 25, 2011
This is a brand new book, but there is no CD-ROM, which is supposed come with it. Read from the front to the back, all instructions repeat over and over how important that CD-ROM is; anyway, you can't find, and can't get it from the website either.
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Posted October 7, 2007
This edition of Davis's drug guide is easy to use.
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Posted February 2, 2005
Many in my clinical group were led to believe that the CD and the Drug Guide contained identical information. We have found this not to be the case. Many drugs that are used in our clinical rounds were either in the book or on the CD (oftentimes in neither). Be prepared to check both the CD, book and other sources to meet your needs. This book/cd set was required purchase for our class. Given our druthers, most of us would have purchased different drug resource because we so often have to reference other materials to find the drugs we need to look up anyway. It's very frustrating.
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Posted September 6, 2003
Filled with sound information! As I am about to graduate with my BSN, I have been reading books that will help me get a job and perform well in the job once I start work.I reccomend this book for that reason.
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Overview
The book contains color illustrations.
Editorial Reviews
From Barnes & Noble
A thirteen hundred page A to Z drug guide that has many adherents. As with other reference books, nursing drug guides should be compared. Very clearly, in medicine, one size doesn't fit all.Robin Y. Wood
This is the fifth edition of a drug reference for nurses describing over 1500 prescription and nonprescription drugs classified into 51 categories. Drugs are alphabetically arranged by generic name with quick-reference A-Z tabs and a detailed cross-referenced index of names. The book includes more than 80 new drugs, many recently approved by the FDA. Two new anticonvulsants, two new antidepressants, and several new antiretroviral agents are described. The purpose is to provide a current, comprehensive, and convenient drug resource for nurses to assure safe and effective administration of medications. Drug information highlights the indications, action and pharmacokinetics, contraindications and precautions, side effects, interactions, route and dosage, time/action profile, and warnings for each drug. Nursing implications offered for each drug include assessment, laboratory test considerations, potential nursing diagnoses, implementation, patient/family teaching instructions, and guidelines for evaluation. This information is essential for safe, informed patient care by nurses, nurse practitioners, and nursing students in every healthcare setting. This type of reference is required wherever nurses give medications. Full color pictures clearly display 430 most commonly prescribed drugs. Special dosing considerations are given for pediatric, geriatric, and obstetric patients and patients with renal/liver or congestive heart failure. Issues of compatibility among drugs in syringes, IV tubing, and solutions are addressed. Appendixes contain useful tables for calculating infusion rates and dosages, commonly used combination drugs, administration techniques, routine immunizations, andrecent drug release updates. This drug reference is accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive, and convenient. It should be owned by all nurses and nursing students, available in all nursing libraries, and handy for quick reference in all healthcare settings where drugs are administered.Booknews
This time-tested guide covers 4600 trade and generic drugs as well as popular herbs and their interactions. Each entry includes information on indications and contraindications, action, pharmacokinetics, interactions, side effects, availability, dosage, and nursing implications, such as implementation, and patient/family teaching. Color photographs of the most commonly prescribed brand drugs can aid in quick recognition. Flex cloth binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From The Critics
Reviewer: Nelly Lim, BA(Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)Description: This drug reference contains drug profiles of over-the-counter, prescription, and natural products, as well as nursing assessment, teaching, and drug-related guides with information pertaining to safe administration. This edition comes with a disk, a new feature since the previous edition published in 1999.
Purpose: The purpose is to "meet and fill the drug information needs of every student and practicing nurse, facilitating and emphasizing the nurse's role in detecting, preventing, and documenting adverse drug reactions and medication errors." These are ambitious but important objectives. Although the book is proactive in the detection and prevention of drug reactions and errors, documentation is not in depth.
Audience: This book is written primarily for practicing nurses and nursing students.
Features: One of the best features of this book is the section set apart solely for natural products. Other sections that deal with safe administration are especially useful and contain information that would normally be found in a textbook. These include special dosing considerations, lab values, BSA, dietary allowances, and color pictures of common drugs. The book's hard cover is a bonus considering the wear and tear that reference books endure on nursing units. Shortcomings of the book include the small font used in the drug profile tables and the lack of common unlabeled uses for some drugs.
Assessment: In addition to containing drug profiles, this book provides a wealth of useful and practical information specific to nursing care and safe medication administration. Especially unique are the profiles of natural products, which have become a mainstay in health and nutrition and require attention due to possible drug interactions. The disk also adds to the book's usefulness, although much drug information can be found online today.
3 Stars from Doody
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Table of Contents
SPECIAL DOSING CONSIDERATIONS xxi
MEDICATION MISADVENTURES: THE NURSE'S ROLE IN DETECTING, PREVENTING, AND DOCUMENTING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS AND MEDICATION ERRORS xxxi
CLASSIFICATIONS C1 -- C74
DRUG MONOGRAPHS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY GENERIC NAME 1 -- 1056
APPENDICES