Description
Book SynopsisSAFETY FIRST WITH ‘CURE & CARE’!
Davis’s Canadian Drug Guide for Nurses, Eighteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.
Its nursing-focused ‘Cure & Care’ ‘Cure’ approach makes it the ideal resource for both student and practicing nurses by delivering exactly what they need to know to provide the very best care for their patients. ‘Cure’ explains what the drug does, while ‘Care’ describes what the nurse does and how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics.
BONUS! FREE DIGITAL ACCESS
An access code inside new, printed texts unlocks your one-year, FREE subscription to DrugGuide.com, Davis’s Drug Guide Online, powered by Unbound Medicine. You’ll have information on more than 5,000 trade names and generic drugs at your fingertips, as well as audio pronunciations and color photographs, all updated regularly.
- Search the complete database and appendices quickly and efficiently.
- Build your knowledge with extensively cross-referenced drugs.
- Listen to audio pronunciations and view color photographs of drugs.
- Stay current with content updates and FDA drug news.
LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE AT A GLANCE
- #1 Drug Guide for patient safety
- Red tab for high alert medications, plus in-depth high alerts and patient safety coverage
- Red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects
- REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
- Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-natural product interactions
- Special considerations for patient populations
- Geri heading identifies special concerns for older adults, including the AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults.
- OB and Lact headings highlight information for pregnant and breastfeeding patients.
- Pedi heading identifies concerns for children.
- Rep heading identifies considerations for patients of reproductive age.
- IV Administration subheads
- Pharmacogenomic content
- Patient and family teaching guidance
- Canadian-specific content
- Monographs on drugs approved for use in Canada that are not FDA-approved for use in the U.S.
- Additional Canadian trade names for many US-approved generic drugs, identified by a maple leaf icon
- A summary of the similarities and differences between pharmaceutical practices in the U.S. and Canada
- Canadian educators and reviewers
FREE ONLINE LEARNING, CARE PLANNING, AND PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS
- Audio Library of 1,200+ drug names
- Tutorials with self-tests, Preventing Medication Errors and Psychotropic Drugs
- Calculators for body mass index (BMI), metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage/KG and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
- Interactive Case Studies, brief, real-life scenarios, each followed by a series of questions
- Audio podcasts on…Risk Evaluation Mitigation Systems (REMS), How to Use Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses®,Detecting and Managing ADRs, Evidence-based Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, Pharmacogenomics, Medication Errors, Special Dosing Considerations, Educating Patients about Safe Medication Use
- Video clips illustrating the safe administration of medications
Table of Contents
- HOW TO USE DAVIS’S DRUG GUIDE FOR NURSES
- EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS: Implications for Nurses
- PHARMACOGENOMICS
- MEDICATION ERRORS: Improving Practices and Patient Safety
- DETECTING AND MANAGING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
- OVERVIEW OF RISK EVALUATION AND MITIGATION SYSTEMS (REMS)
- SPECIAL DOSING CONSIDERATIONS
- THE CYTOCHROME P450 SYSTEM: What Is It and Why Should I Care?
- EDUCATING PATIENTS ABOUT SAFE MEDICATION USE
- CLASSIFICATIONS
- DRUG MONOGRAPHS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY GENERIC NAME
- DRUGS APPROVED IN CANADA
- NATURAL/HERBAL PRODUCTS
- MEDICATION SAFETY TOOLS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- COMPREHENSIVE GENERIC/TRADE/CLASSIFICATIONS INDEX
- APPENDICES
- A.Recent Drug Approvals
- B.Ophthalmic Medications
- C.Medication Administration Techniques
- D.Administering Medications to Children
- E.Formulas Helpful for Calculating Doses
- F.Pediatric Dosage Calculations
- G.Normal Values of Common Laboratory Tests
- H.Controlled Substance Schedules
- I.Equianalgesic Dosing Guidelines
- J.Food Sources for Specific Nutrients
- K.Insulins and Insulin Therapy
- L.Differences in U.S. and Canadian Pharmaceutical Practices
- M.Routine Pediatric and Adult Immunizations
- N.Combination Drugs (Available online at FADavis.com)
