Pharmacology and nursing
Gain the
pharmacology knowledge and skills you need to administer medications safely!
Pharmacology and the Nursing Process, 10th Edition provides practical,
easy-to-use pharmacology information, emphasizing the application of the
nursing process and prioritization throughout the book. Coverage begins with
pharmacology basics, then discusses drugs by body systems and drug functions.
Hundreds of full-color illustrations show how drugs work in the body and depict
key steps in medication administration. Written by pharmacology experts Linda
Lane Lilley, Shelly Rainforth Collins, and Julie S. Snyder, this bestselling
textbook makes it easy to understand and apply pharmacology concepts and
provide safe, quality nursing care.
- Focus on need-to-know
information includes discussions of what nurses may encounter during drug
administration in a variety of health care settings, providing accounts of
real-life medication errors and tips for avoiding those errors.
- The Nursing Process is applied
to each category of drugs, ensuring that you administer medications
accurately and safely, and includes the steps of assessment, human need
statements, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Emphasis on drug classes
describes key similarities and differences among the drugs in each class,
making it easier to understand how individual drugs work in the body.
- Consistent presentation for
each drug group includes the mechanism of action, indications,
contraindications, adverse effects, interactions, and dosages, concluding
with drug profiles of individual drugs in the class or group.
- High-alert icons identify
medications that pose a greater risk to patient safety.
- Focus on prioritization
includes prioritized nursing diagnoses along with a corresponding
prioritization of goals and outcomes, to help you learn to connect nursing
diagnoses with goals and outcomes.
- Ease of readability makes
difficult content more understandable.
- Photo atlas features more than
100 drawings and photographs showing drug administration techniques.
- Dosages tables summarize
generic and trade names, pharmacologic class, normal dosage ranges, and
indications for the drugs.
- Learning features at the
beginning of each chapter include objectives and key terms, and at the end
of each chapter, key points, critical thinking questions, review
questions, and a list of resources available on the Evolve website.
- QSEN coverage includes the use
of human need theory with human need statements, case studies featuring
collaboration and teamwork content, Preventing Medication Errors boxes,
and a discussion of the QSEN initiative as it relates to the safety and
quality of patient care.