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Sixth Edition
By
Adrianna Tiziani, RN, BSc(Mon), Dip Ed(Melb), MEdSt(Mon), MRCNA, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Description
Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs, now in its 6th edition, continues to be an essential resource for nursing students and practitioners.
The information presented in this user-friendly guide can be accessed either by therapeutic class or by system – each section is introduced
by a description of the therapeutic class, followed by an A-Z of drugs within that therapeutic class, including the action, use and dosage
of each drug, and important nursing points and nursing cautions. Both trade names and generic drug names are given. All drug information
and appendices have been fully updated and revised, as has the description of the nurse's role in drug therapy, taking into account the
continuing evolution of nursing practice.
Audience
Nursing students and practitioners.
Contents
Introduction
The nurse's role in drug therapy
Assessing the patient
Children & the elderly
Pregnancy
Lactation
Legal
schedules
Storage
Labelling
Drug orders
Legal responsibility
Drug administration errors
A
little pharmacokinetics (drug dosage; drug half-life; therapeutic drug monitoring; drug route; oral administration; parenteral administration)
Guide
for safe administration (adverse drug reactions; drug interactions)
Contents by Therapeutic Class
Contents
by Body System
Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system
Drugs action on the respiratory system
Drugs
acting on the nervous system
Drugs acting on the endocrine system
Drugs acting on the gastrointestinal tract
Drugs
acting on the genitourinary system
Drugs acting on the musculoskeletal system
Drugs acting on the immune system
Drugs
acting on the blood
Drugs acting on the skin
Anti-infective agents
Drugs used in neoplastic disorders
Drugs
used in the eye, ear, nose and throat
Miscellaneous (antidotes, antagonists & chelating agents; miscellaneous agents)
Appendices
Poisoning
and its treatments
Poisons information centres
Alternative drug namesBibliography
Glossary
Index
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Paperback, 0 pages, publication date: MAY-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7295-3667-7
ISBN-10: 0-7295-3667-X
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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