Full Description
With its engaging writing style, clinical precision and currency and clear focus on understanding drug prototypes, this popular book presents pharmacology in the context of nursing care. The new fifth edition features a full-color design and full-color illustrations throughout, making it the only full-color comprehensive nursing pharmacology text. It is also the only nursing pharmacology resource at this level that uses large and small print to distinguish need-to-know from nice-to-know content.
Contents
I. Introduction II. Basic Principles of Pharmacology III. Drug Therapy Across the Life Span IV. Peripheral Nervous System Drugs V. Central Nervous System Drugs VI. Drugs That Affect Fluid & Electrolyte Balance VII. Drugs That Affect the Heart, Blood Vessels, & Blood VIII. Drugs for Endocrine Disorders IX. Women's Health X. Anti-inflammatory, Antiallergic, & Immunologic Drugs XI. Drugs for Bone & Joint Disorders XII. Respiratory Tract Drugs XIII. Gastrointestinal Drugs XIV. Nutrition XV. Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases XVI. Chemotherapy of Parasitic Diseases XVII. Cancer Chemotherapy XVIII. Additional Important Drugs XIX. Alternative Therapy XX. Toxicology Appendices
