Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs
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Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs

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eBook - ePub

Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs

About this book

This ninth edition of Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugse-bookcontinues to provide reliable, accurate drug information for nursing and midwifery students and practitioners. All content in this must have nursing drug handbook, is tailored for nurses and midwives in Australia and New Zealand. User-friendly and fully up-to-date, this indispensible nursing e-book delivers safe drug administration information regarding form, action, use, dose, adverse effects and interactions in compliance with current pharmaceutical guidelines by the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA). Each therapeutic drug class features a detailed description, followed by an A-Z of drugs within that class. Important Nursing points and cautions throughout this edition highlight best practice in drug administration. Patient teaching and advice has been included to emphasise an essential part of care within a multidisciplinary team. This e-book edition also features icons that indicate drug cautions during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and another that indicates drug-specific restrictions in sport. A bestselling Elsevier textbook, Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs has been the premier drug guide for nurses and midwives since 1983.Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs 9th edition will also be available for separate purchase as an app (iOS and android) and provides an easy reference, searchable version of the text in mobile format for students and practitioners to carry with them during clinical practice. Also, available for separate purchase to be used alongside the Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs app will be the Tiziani Drug Calculations app. When both apps are purchased the user will be able to share function, content and data between the two applications. This link will provide cross reference from the text to case studies and drug calculation MCQ's, placing the pharmacology in a clinical context.Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs 9e app and the Tiziani Drug Calculations app will be available for purchasein December 2013.- Drugs listed by therapeutic class and by body system- Both trade names and generic drug names provided- Each drug entry listed by available forms, action, use, dosage, adverse effects, interactions with other drugs- Nursing points and cautions and Patient teaching and advice ensure quality patient care- New focus on Patient teaching and advice- All existing drugs reviewed and updated- All new entries checked to ensure form, action, dose, usage, adverse effects, contraindication and precautions comply with current pharmaceutical guidelines.- Cautions for drugs used during pregnancy and breastfeeding are highlighted with an icon- Cautions for Sports related drugs are also highlighted with an icon

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Information

Publisher
Mosby Australia
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780729581622
Edition
9
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Inside Front Cover
  5. Copyright
  6. Preface
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. SUMMARY
  9. AT A GLANCE
  10. PATIENT TEACHING AND ADVICE
  11. TECHNICAL REVIEWERS
  12. REVIEWERS
  13. Chapter 1: ANALGESICS, NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDs) AND DISEASE-MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUGS (DMARDS)
  14. Chapter 2: ANORECTICS AND WEIGHT-LOSS AGENTS
  15. Chapter 3: ANTACIDS
  16. Chapter 4: ANTHELMINTICS
  17. Chapter 5: ANTI-ALZHEIMERā€™S AGENTS
  18. Chapter 6: ANTIANGINAL AGENTS
  19. Chapter 7: ANTIANXIETY AGENTS
  20. Chapter 8: ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENTS
  21. Chapter 9: ANTIASTHMA AGENTS AND BRONCHODILATORS
  22. Chapter 10: ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS
  23. Chapter 11: ANTICOAGULANT AND ANTITHROMBOTIC AGENTS
  24. Chapter 12: ANTIDEPRESSANTS
  25. Chapter 13: ANTIDIABETIC AGENTS
  26. Chapter 14: ANTIDIARRHOEAL AGENTS
  27. Chapter 15: ANTIDOTES, ANTAGONISTS AND CHELATING AGENTS
  28. Chapter 16: ANTIEMETIC AGENTS
  29. Chapter 17: ANTIEPILEPTICS
  30. Chapter 18: ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS
  31. Chapter 19: ANTIGOUT AND URICOLYTIC AGENTS
  32. Chapter 20: ANTIHISTAMINES
  33. Chapter 21: ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS
  34. Chapter 22: ANTIMALARIAL AGENTS
  35. Chapter 23: ANTIMIGRAINE AGENTS
  36. Chapter 24: ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENTS
  37. Chapter 25: ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS
  38. Chapter 26: ANTINEOPLASTIC SUPPORT AGENTS
  39. Chapter 27: ANTI-PARKINSONā€™S AGENTS
  40. Chapter 28: ANTIPLATELET AGENTS
  41. Chapter 29: ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS
  42. Chapter 30: ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS
  43. Chapter 31: ANTIULCER AGENTS
  44. Chapter 32: ANTIVIRAL AGENTS
  45. Chapter 33: BLADDER FUNCTION DISORDER AGENTS
  46. Chapter 34: BONE- AND CALCIUM-REGULATING AGENTS
  47. Chapter 35: CARDIAC GLYCOSIDES
  48. Chapter 36: CHOLINERGIC AND ANTICHOLINERGIC AGENTS
  49. Chapter 37: CORTICOSTEROIDS
  50. Chapter 38: COUGH SUPPRESSANTS, EXPECTORANTS AND MUCOLYTICS
  51. Chapter 39: DERMATOLOGICAL AGENTS
  52. Chapter 40: DIURETICS
  53. Chapter 41: DRUG DEPENDENCE
  54. Chapter 42: ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AGENTS
  55. Chapter 43: EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT AGENTS
  56. Chapter 44: FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS
  57. Chapter 45: GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS (MISCELLANEOUS)
  58. Chapter 46: GENERAL ANAESTHETICS
  59. Chapter 47: HAEMOPOIETIC AGENTS
  60. Chapter 48: HAEMOSTATICS
  61. Chapter 49: HYPOTHALAMIC AND PITUITARY HORMONES
  62. Chapter 50: IMMUNOMODIFIERS
  63. Chapter 51: LAXATIVES
  64. Chapter 52: LIPID-REGULATING AGENTS
  65. Chapter 53: LOCAL ANAESTHETICS
  66. Chapter 54: MUSCLE RELAXANTS
  67. Chapter 55: NEUROMUSCULAR-BLOCKING AGENTS
  68. Chapter 56: OPIOID ANALGESICS
  69. Chapter 57: PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND BREASTFEEDING
  70. Chapter 58: SEDATIVES AND HYPNOTICS
  71. Chapter 59: SEX HORMONES
  72. Chapter 60: STIMULANTS
  73. Chapter 61: SYMPATHOMIMETIC AGENTS
  74. Chapter 62: THYROID AND ANTITHYROID AGENTS
  75. Chapter 63: TOPICAL RECTAL MEDICATION
  76. Chapter 64: VACCINES, IMMUNOGLOBULINS AND ANTIVENOMS
  77. Chapter 65: VASODILATORS
  78. Chapter 66: VITAMINS, MINERALS AND ELECTROLYTES
  79. Chapter 67: MISCELLANEOUS AGENTS
  80. APPENDIX 1: POISONING AND ITS TREATMENT
  81. APPENDIX 2: POISONS INFORMATION CENTRES AND MEDICINE INFORMATION CENTRES
  82. APPENDIX 3: ALTERNATIVE DRUG NAMES
  83. APPENDIX 4: NORMAL REFERENCE VALUES
  84. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  85. GLOSSARY
  86. INDEX
  87. Inside Back Cover
  88. HAVARDā€™S NURSING GUIDE TO DRUGS 9e ADRIANA TIZIANI