Mosby's Nursing Drug Ref.-2006-w/cd

Your Guide to Safe Medication Administration. Essential information on more than 1,300 generic and 4,500 trade-name drugs. Plus a companion mini CD-ROM! Current * New! Comprehensive information for 20 new drugs recently approved by the FDA. * New! More than 2,000 new drug facts, including patient/family teaching guidelines, updated drug interactions, side effects, precautions, contraindications, and IV therapy. Convenient * Alphabetical listing with A-to-Z thumb tabs. * Common and life-threatening side effects are listed in different typefaces for easy identification. * Cautions are included for high-alert drugs posing the greatest risk for patient harm if administered incorrectly. * Syringe and IV drug/solution compatibility charts are located inside front and back covers. * Nursing Alert icons identify considerations that require special attention. * Do Not Crush icons denote drugs that should not be administered in crushed form. * More than 400 potential interactions between drugs and herbal products are denoted by distinctive icons. * DrugPro mini CD-ROM offers a drug interaction tool, drug calculators, hundreds of patient teaching guidelines in English and Spanish, herbal supplement information, and printable information on the most commonly prescribed drugs. Complete * New! Portable safe medication administration checklist located in the back of the book. * "Tall Man" lettering as recommended by FDA to distinguish easily confused drug names. * 158 full-color photos identify common tablets and capsules, updated to reflect the top prescribed drugs. * Almost 1,200 pairs of look-alike, sound-alike drug names are included in an appendix. * Includes nearly 900 commonly used combination products, their individual components, and their uses. * Canadian drug coverage incorporated throughout. * Free Internet updates provide the latest drug alerts and information at: http://evolve.elsevier.com/nursingdrugupdates/Skidmore/NDR/.Skidmore-Roth, Linda is the author of 'Mosby's Nursing Drug Ref.-2006-w/cd' with ISBN 9780323023108 and ISBN 032302310X.