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Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, with Resource Kit CD-ROM (Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses)

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Authors: Judith Hopfer Deglin, April Hazard Vallerand
Publisher: F A Davis Co
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

66 reviews
Sales Rank: 1534

Media: Paperback
Edition: 11
Pages: 1440
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 1.5

ISBN: 0803619111
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9780803619111
ASIN: 0803619111

Publication Date: June 12, 2008
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Product Description
MORE new and updated content!
MORE emphasis on safe nursing practice!
MORE organized and readable!

Count on Davis s Drug Guide for Nurses, Eleventh Edition to deliver easy-to-read, well-organized monographs on hundreds of generic and thousands of trade name drugs. With a focus on nursing practice and usability, it s the onedrug guide that provides comprehensive coverage of all populations across the entire lifespan, and all of the guidance needed to administer medications competently and safely.
MORE clinical and learning tools on the Resource Kit CD-ROM!

* NEW! FREE PDA download powered by Unbound Medicine 400 complete monographs for commonly administered drugs.
* Updated Drug Search Program nearly 700 searchable drug monographs that can be copied, pasted, and printed.
* NEW! Audio Pronunciations for drugs included in the Drug Search Program.
* NEW! Unique Psychotropic Drugs Tutorial, depicting the safe administration of psychotropic medications. Includes monograph content for select psychotropic drugs, plus a multiple-choice self test.
* Unique preventing Medication Errors Tutorial a medication safety review, 60-question self test with real-life scenarios, physician orders, and rationales for correct and incorrect answers.
* Updated Wound Care Tutorial a photographic overview of the different types of wounds and wound care products as well as a 20-question self-test, with answers and rationales.
* NEW! Interactive Case Studies brief real-life scenarios followed by a series of questions. Results can be printed or e-mailed.
* Drug Dosage Calculators for metric conversions, IV drip rates, and dosage/kg, and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
* Wound Care Clinical Sheets a quick review of pressure ulcer prevention strategies, wound assessment, pressure ulcer stages and treatment, and wound care products. Pocket sized and printable.
* And more!

Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Most useful Nursing Drug Book Available March 9, 2000
Michele (Roanoke, IL USA)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful

I have found this to be the most useful drug book on the market. The doctors at the hospital prefer to use my Davis' over the PDR. It's a quicker to find the pertinant info on any type of dosage for every type of patient.

5 out of 5 stars

Best Drug Guide For Nurses July 30, 2002
27 out of 27 found this review helpful

My pharmacology class required Davis's Drug Guide For Nurses. Being a cynic, I checked out all the other guides available at the time. Davis's is the BEST drug guide for students, new grads and long-time nurses. Nursing dx are included with every drug listed. Quick and simple to use. Cross-referenced by brand and generic names. OTC medications get the same treatment as prescription medications. Davis's also has listings for the most used herbals and excellent content to help guide the nurse in herbal-drug interactions. The best deal out there, I am buying my third copy of this excellent resource.

5 out of 5 stars

Superb drug guide for nurses December 20, 2005
Soaring Heart
27 out of 29 found this review helpful

You can't go wrong with this fantastic drug guide! It is listed under generic names but if you don't know the generic name you can look up in the index at the back of the book for the trade name. I had a nurse/lawyer professor for my first year care plans and she wanted it all. This book delivered it ALL: classification, pregnancy catagory, indications, mechanism of action, contraindications and precautions, adverse reactions and side effects, interactions, route and dosage, availability, nursing implications and even potential nursing diagnoses! Also implementation, patient/family teaching and evaluation. Wow! I've been very impressed. It came through for me so I didn't have to go out and buy another drug book which is saying something! Davis's Drug Guide has even more in the back of the book with many appendixes including: recent drug approvals, additional drugs, combination drugs and opthalmic meds all that include class, indications, adverse reactions and side effects, route and dosage and contraindications and warnings. Appendix E is about natural/herbal products which is as thorough as the drugs that make up the main part of this book. There are pictures of the intramuscular drug sites, formulas helpful for calculating doses, routine pediatric and adult immunizations, recommendations for the safe handling of hazardous drugs, schedules of controlled substances, food sources for specific nutrients (ie foods rich in K, Na, Ca, Fe, vit K, vit D, low Na, foods that acidify urine as well as foods that alkalizine urine), and insulin and insulin therapy. Also throughout the book there is plenty of red lettering amidst the black for high alert warnings where drug overdoses have occurred in the past. The organized, easily found references in this guide could save your client's lives. Just because a doctor orders it doesn't mean it is ok to give, as a nurse we have to look it up and know the safe dose and contraindications and more and this book has it all! Highly recommended! Good luck all future nurses!
Soar!

5 out of 5 stars

Keep this with you while administering meds to clients. December 24, 2003
M. Franta (Walnut, CA United States)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful

I teach nursing, and this DAVIS Drug Guide for Nurses is a must-have for all my students as they learn how to professionally administer medications to their clients.
All nurses should have a convenient system to use when the occasion arises that a nurse gives a medication that they are unfamilair with...I found that this DAVIS Guide is a quick and easy way to investigate the medication, it's indications, contraindications, nursing considerations and idiosyncrasies. Adverse reactions and normal dosing ranges are included for all medications .....
There is also caution advised to prevent medication errors....near misses are always preferred over real errors any day. How the heart skips a beat whenever that happens!
Nurses NEVER intend to make errors, and this book gives a cautionary tale in the beginning - to help professionals understand the grave seriousness of it all.
It's never too late to buy an informative drug guide, and here I recommend this book to ALL --- professional or not.
It's cruicial that all people who give medications or take them understand the actions of the medications comprehensively.
The more one knows the more choices they posses.
Before you pass the meds,
pass the DAVIS Drug Guide!

5 out of 5 stars

A Great Reference for non- Nurses September 20, 2000
Cindy Krafft (Mishawaka, IN)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful

As a home health care therapist, I have been searching for a drug reference book that was easy to use and provided good information I could share with my patients. After reviewing several options, Davis' book meet my needs perfectly. I have given it to my staff for comment and it was so well received that today I am ordering 10 copies for our department.

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