Full Description
This work discusses the application of pharmacotherapeutics knowledge to the real world of daily clinical practice. It contains easy-to-understand illustrations of drug physiology and how drugs work in the body, as well as many drug tables, including drugs commonly used, pharmacokinetics, drug/food interactions, dosage schedules and available dosage forms. "On the horizon" boxes highlight potentially useful drugs currently in clinical trials, while "clinical pearls" provide insight from expert practitioners who use drugs on a daily basis in their practice and discuss how to help increase patient compliance, how to analyze potential drug interactions, and treatment selection reasoning.
Contents
Part 1 The foundation: the role of the nurse practitioner as prescriber; review of basic principles of pharmacology; rational drug selection; legal and professional issues in prescribing; adverse drug reactions; factors that foster positive outcomes; cultural and ethnic influences on pharmacotherapeutics; nutrition and drug therapy; pharmacology in complementary medicine; information technology and pharmacology; over-the-counter medications. Part 2 Pharmacotherapeutics with single drugs: drugs affecting the autonomic system; drugs affecting the respiratory system; drugs affecting the haematopoietic system; drugs affecting the immune system; drugs affecting the gastrointestinal system; drugs affecting the endocrine system; drugs affecting the reproductive system; drugs affecting the integumentary system; drugs used in treating infectious diseases; drugs used in treating inflammatory processes; drugs used in treating eye and ear disorders. Part 3 Pharmacotherapeutics with multiple drugs: anaemia; chronic stable angina and low-risk unstable angina; anxiety and depression; asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; contraception; dermatologic conditions; diabetes mellitus; gastroesophageal reflux and peptic ulcer disease; headaches; heart failure; human immunodeficiency virus disease and acquired immunodeficiency disease; hormone replacement therapy and osteoporosis; hyperlipidaemia; hypertension; hyperthyroidism; pneumonia; smoking cessation; sexually transmitted diseases and vaginitis; tuberculosis; upper respiratory infections - viral upper respitatory infection, sinusitis, otitis media and otitis externa; urinary tract infections. Part 4 Special drug treatment considerations: women as patients; paediatric patients; geriatric patients; chronically ill and long-term care.
