Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice

A comprehensive pharmacology text with a nursing practice focus that covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to deliver safe and effective drug therapy. This text categorizes drugs and groups of drugs according to their therapeutic effects on particular body systems and presents specific nursing actions for administering drugs and rationale for those actions. The easy-to-understand organization of this text is designed to help nurses anticipate therapeutic and adverse effects of drug administration and apply this new drug knowledge to actual patient care. New features in this edition include a discussion of special drug therapy considerations, updated drug information including more than 100 new drugs and expanded indications for use of older drugs. Also included is a new unit on immunotherapy, expanded information on drug studies, effects of ethnicity on drug actions, biotechnology as a source of drugs, and expanded coverage of recent developments in cellular physiology. Review and application exercises conclude each chapter to enhance understanding of the material and new appendices covering SI Units, Therapeutic Drug Levels and Canadian drug names are provided to help nurses understand drug administration in a variety of care settings. A separate study guide is also available.