2018 Nurse's Drug Handbook / Edition 17

by Jones & Bartlett Learning

Overview

Jones & Bartlett Learning 2018 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

The 2018 Nurse’s Drug Handbook includes:
* Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names
* Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedule
* Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information
* Incompatibilities and contraindications
* Interactions with drugs, food, and activities
* Adverse reactions
* Nursing considerations, including key teaching points for patients
* Mechanism-of-action illustrations
* Warnings and precautions

New drugs include: bezlotoximab (Zinplava), brivaracetam (Briviact), daclizumab (Zinbryta), ixekizumab (Taltz), lixisenatide (Adlyxin), obiltoxaximab (Anthim), phentermine (Adipex-P), plecanatide (Trulance), prasterone (Intrarosa), and reslizumab (Cinqair).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284121346
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	11/06/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1350
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Founded in 1983, Jones & Bartlett Learning is a world-leading provider of instructional, assessment, and learning-performance management solutions for the secondary education, post-secondary education, and professional markets. We develop educational programs and services that improve learning outcomes and enhance student achievement by combining authoritative content written by respected authors with innovative, proven, and engaging technology applications that meet the diverse needs of today's instructors, students, and professionals.

Table of Contents

Chapter Reviewers and Clinical Consultants
Chapter How to Use This Book
Chapter Foreword
Chapter Overview of Pharmacology
Chapter Principles of Drug Administration
Chapter Drug Therapy and the Nursing Process
Chapter Individual Drugs (Listed Alphabetically)
Chapter Appendices
Chapter Safety Guidelines for Opioid Use
Chapter Parenteral Insulin Preparations
Chapter Oral Allergen Extracts
Chapter Antihistamines
Chapter Selected Ophthalmic Drugs
Chapter Selected Topical Drugs
Chapter Selected Antivirals
Chapter Selected Antineoplastic Drugs
Chapter Selected Antihypertensive Combinations
Chapter Selected Obstetrical Drugs
Chapter Vitamins
Chapter Interferons
Chapter Compatible Drugs in a Syringe
Chapter Drug Formulas and Calculations
Chapter Weights and Equivalents
Chapter Equianalgesic Doses for Opioid Agonists
Chapter Abbreviations

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carol E Agana, MNSc, RNP, APRN (University of Arkansas)
Description: Updated yearly, this drug handbook contains up-to-date information on medications as well as the information needed to safely administer them. It provides an overview of pharmacological principles and the nursing process.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide up-to-date information to nurses and nursing students about medications they will be administering to patients. It is intended as an easy-to-use handbook with accurate information as well as nursing considerations and patient education.
Audience: It meets the needs of the intended audience — nurses and nursing students. Nurse practitioner and physician assistant students can benefit from the handbook as well. Keeping a copy in healthcare facilities is useful for quick reference.
Features: This handbook lists hundreds of medications by generic name, trade name, and alternate names to make it easy to look them up. Each medication has a full description and includes adverse effects, interactions, and contraindications, which are most important to nurses. Unique features include nursing considerations and patient education for each medication. The appendixes offer more information about special groups of medications like opioids and topical medications, among others. The book is easy to read and understand and it includes some tables. One shortcoming is that there is no mention of interactions with herbal products; for example, heparin interacts adversely with many OTC herbal supplements. Some of the other handbooks include this information.
Assessment: The justification for yearly updates is that new information becomes available on some medications and there are new medications that are approved for use. However, that said, as we move toward more use of technology, I'm not sure of the need for a print book. The University of Arkansas Nursing School no longer requires a specific drug handbook, and students may obtain any available app. This book is very similar to Mosby's 2018 Nursing Drug Reference, 31st edition (Elsevier, 2018), Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2018, Kizior (Elsevier, 2018), Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, 15th edition, Vallerand (F.A. Davis, 2017), and McGraw-Hill Nurse's Drug Handbook, 7th edition, Schull (McGraw-Hill, 2013). How can students decide which one to get when they are all so similar? (I cannot tell the difference.) That said, the quality of this book is excellent, something that has not really changed for as long as it has been published.

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