Focus on Nursing Pharmacology

**Help your students develop the knowledge they need to deliver safe, effective drug therapy.**This proven resource reviews and integrates students’ baseline knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, and nursing fundamentals into chapters focused on “need to know” concepts about each group of drugs. Reflecting the most recent advances in the field, this concise and beautifully illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information into easy-to-learn steps.**KEY FEATURES:**A new**__Nursing Processes__feature**highlights the how-tos of planning patient-centered care.**Coverage of 52 new drugs and 11 new drug classes**brings the book completely up-to-date.**Expanded__Critical Thinking Scenarios__**present real-life scenarios that help students understand how assessment and the data collected are applied in clinical situations.__Nursing Considerations__**section**s highlight the rationale for each nursing intervention to help students apply the information in practice.__Drugs in Focus__**tables**clearly summarize and identify the drugs within a class, highlighting generic and trade names, usual dosage, and indications.__Focus on Safe Medication Administration__**boxes**present vital information to help keep patients safe, prevent medication errors, and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of the drugs.__Focus on Calculations__**reviews**help students hone calculation and measurement skills while learning about the drugs for which doses might need to be calculated.__Focus on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan__**boxes**concisely summarize points to consider when using the drugs of each class with children, adults, and the elderly.__Check Your Understanding__**sections**present NCLEX-style questions, including alternate format questions, to help students prepare for the exam, as well as other questions and activities that reinforce concepts and aid in retention.Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Seventh Edition, is also incorporated into__Lippincott CoursePoint+__, a dynamic learning solution that integrates this book’s curriculum, adaptive learning tools, virtual simulations, real-time data reporting, and the latest evidence-based practice content together into one powerful student learning solution.__Lippincott CoursePoint+__improves the nursing students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to prepare them for practice. Learn more at[www.NursingEducationSuccess.com/Cours...](http://www.NursingEducationSuccess.com/CoursePoint). Help your students develop the knowledge they need to deliver safe, effective drug therapy. This proven resource reviews and integrates students’ baseline knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, and nursing fundamentals into chapters focused on “need to know” concepts about each group of drugs. Reflecting the most recent advances in the field, this concise and beautifully illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information into easy-to-learn steps. KEY FEATURES: A new Nursing Processes feature highlights the how-tos of planning patient-centered care. Coverage of 52 new drugs and 11 new drug classes brings the book completely up-to-date. Expanded Critical Thinking Scenarios present real-life scenarios that help students understand how assessment and the data collected are applied in clinical situations. Nursing Considerations section s highlight the rationale for each nursing intervention to help students apply the information in practice. Drugs in Focus tables clearly summarize and identify the drugs within a class, highlighting generic and trade names, usual dosage, and indications. Focus on Safe Medication Administration boxes present vital information to help keep patients safe, prevent medication errors, and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of the drugs. Focus on Calculations reviews help students hone calculation and measurement skills while learning about the drugs for which doses might need to be calculated. Focus on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes concisely summarize points to consider when using the drugs of each class with children, adults, and the elderly. Check Your Understanding sections present NCLEX-style questions, including alternate format questions, to help students prepare for the exam, as well as other questions and activities that reinforce concepts and aid in retention.Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Seventh Edition, is also incorporated into Lippincott CoursePoint+ , a dynamic learning solution that integrates this book’s curriculum, adaptive learning tools, virtual simulations, real-time data reporting, and the latest evidence-based practice content together into one powerful student learning solution. Lippincott CoursePoint+ improves the nursing students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to prepare them for practice. Learn more at(http://www.NursingEducationSuccess.com/CoursePoint) www.NursingEducationSuccess.com/Cours... . "Amy Karch has found that students learn best when concepts are built upon each other, growing from simple to complex, building on a foundation of understanding. Organized by body systems, this heavily illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information into focused, easy-to-learn steps. Building key concepts upon each other, the text gives students a solid foundation of understanding. Easy to understand drug prototype boxes are integrated throughout the book as well as integrated content summaries. Contains more images depicting drug actions than any of the book's competitors. Includes the popular and proven "Focus on" theme for drug use across the lifespan, cultural and gender considerations, evidence-based practice, patient teaching, herbal and alternative therapies and dosage calculation; including "Focus on Safe Medication Administration;" and a "Drugs in Focus" table for each classification of drugs. Focused content and focused features equal a focused student. Drug discussions include therapeutic actions and indications, pharmacokinetics, contraindications and cautions and adverse effects. Detailed rationales are presented throughout. Each chapter opens with Learning Objectives and a Glossary of Key Terms, and ends with NCLEX-style questions, and contains a case study-based critical thinking exercise that sets up a situation, shows critical thinking, and then presents a discussion and case-based nursing care guide. Features like this make the book an essential teaching tool!"--Publisher's Website