Pearson Nurse’s Drug Guide 2015

✍ Scribed by Billie A. Wilson, Margaret Shannon, Kelly Shields

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1864
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With over 350 updates, the new 2015 edition of the Pearson Nurse’s Drug Guide provides safe, effective, current, and accurate drug information in a quickly accessible format. Comprehensive and complete, it lists all drugs alphabetically by generic names for quick reference, with an index listing both generic and trade names. It presents important clinical information for hundreds of drugs, with adverse reactions, interactions, side effects, and impacts on lab results. It clearly presents information on IV preparation and push, continuous, or intermittent administration; as well as dosages for neonates, infants, adolescents, adults, and patients with obesity and renal or hepatic impairment. This edition also contains 18 brand-new monographs for drugs recently approved by the FDA.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Contents......Page 7
About the Authors......Page 9
Editorial Review Panel......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Classification Scheme and Prototype Drugs......Page 15
A
......Page 29
B
......Page 187
C
......Page 252
D
......Page 437
E
......Page 567
F
......Page 670
G
......Page 741
H
......Page 777
I
......Page 807
K
......Page 889
L
......Page 899
M
......Page 973
N
......Page 1087
O
......Page 1155
P
......Page 1199
Q
......Page 1369
R
......Page 1379
S
......Page 1437
T
......Page 1507
U
......Page 1633
V
......Page 1635
W
......Page 1674
X
......Page 1678
Z
......Page 1679
Appendix A. Ocular Medications, Low Molecular Weight Heparins, Inhaled Corticosteroids, and Topical Corticosteroids......Page 1700
Appendix B. U.S. Schedules of Controlled Substances......Page 1713
Appendix C. FDA Pregnancy Categories......Page 1715
Appendix D. Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed......Page 1716
Appendix E. Prescription Combination Drugs......Page 1724
Appendix F. Glossary of Key Terms, Clinical Conditions, and Associated Signs and Symptoms......Page 1738
Appendix G. Abbreviations......Page 1744
Appendix H. Herbal and Dietary Supplement Table......Page 1752
Appendix I. Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Medications......Page 1754
Appendix J. Vaccines......Page 1755
Bibliography......Page 1758
A......Page 1759
B......Page 1784
C......Page 1788
D......Page 1796
E......Page 1801
F......Page 1806
G......Page 1808
H......Page 1811
I......Page 1813
K......Page 1817
L......Page 1818
M......Page 1822
N......Page 1826
O......Page 1831
P......Page 1833
R......Page 1841
S......Page 1844
T......Page 1850
V......Page 1855
W......Page 1858
Z......Page 1859

✦ Subjects

Pharmacy; Pharmacology