SAFETY FIRST WITH ‘CURE & CARE’!

Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, Eighteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan— well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.

Its nursing-focused ‘Cure & Care’ ‘Cure’ approach makes it the ideal resource for both student and practicing nurses by delivering exactly what they need to know to provide the very best care for their patients. ‘Cure’ explains what the drug does, while ‘Care’ describes what the nurse does and how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics.

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An access code inside new, printed texts unlocks your one-year, FREE subscription to DrugGuide.com, Davis’s Drug Guide Online, powered by Unbound Medicine. You’ll have information on more than 5,000 trade names and generic drugs at your fingertips, as well as audio pronunciations and color photographs, all updated regularly.

Search the complete database and appendices quickly and efficiently.
Build your knowledge with extensively cross-referenced drugs.
Listen to audio pronunciations and view color photographs of drugs.
Stay current with content updates and with FDA drug news.

LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE AT A GLANCE

#1 Drug Guide for patient safety
Red tab for high alert medications, plus in-depth high alerts and patient safety coverage
Red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects
REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-natural product interactions
Special considerations for patient populations
Geri heading identifies special concerns for older adults, including the AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults.
OB and Lact headings highlight information for pregnant and breastfeeding patients.
Pedi heading identifies concerns for children.
Rep heading identifies considerations for patients of reproductive age.
IV Administration subheads
Pharmacogenomic content
Canadian-specific content identified with maple leaf icon
Patient and family teaching guidance

FREE ONLINE LEARNING, CARE PLANNING, AND PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS

Audio Library of 1,200+ drug names help you pronounce important terms
Tutorials with self-tests, Preventing Medication Errors and Psychotropic Drugs
Calculators for body mass index (BMI), metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage/KG and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
Interactive Case Studies, brief, real-life scenarios, each followed by a series of questions
Audio podcasts on…Risk Evaluation Mitigation Systems (REMS), How to Use Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses®, Detecting and Managing ADRs, Evidence-based Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, Pharmacogenomics, Medication Errors, Special Dosing Considerations, Educating Patients about Safe Medication Use
Video clips illustrating the safe administration of medications

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses - häftad, Engelska, 2022