Mosby's 2009 Nursing Drug Cards

Fully updated with the most current drug facts, Mosby's 2009 Nursing Drug Cards feature complete pharmacologic details and nursing management priorities for over 860 generic and 1,319 brand-name drugs, including approximately 14 new drugs and/or drug categories and more than 100 new drug facts. Each card provides essential nursing information, including the drug's brand names, dosage forms, contraindications, possible adverse effects, interactions, and nursing management priorities....
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Fully updated with the most current drug facts, Mosby's 2009 Nursing Drug Cards feature complete pharmacologic details and nursing management priorities for over 860 generic and 1,319 brand-name drugs, including approximately 14 new drugs and/or drug categories and more than 100 new drug facts. Each card provides essential nursing information, including the drug's brand names, dosage forms, contraindications, possible adverse effects, interactions, and nursing management priorities. You can also access new drug updates online and utilize the bonus mini CD-ROM to print each card and use them "as is" or to add notes to each card to meet your specific needs.

• UNIQUE! Mini-CD-ROM includes an introductory section, Drug Class Quickfacts, presenting quick definitions and functions of major drug classifications.
• UNIQUE! Mini-CD-ROM contains a Fundamentals of Drug Therapy section for at-a-glance reference providing a review of basic principles of pharmacology and standard terminology.
• UNIQUE! Mini-CD-ROM includes a Drug Review Guide listing drugs by body system and drug class to allow for quick access to drug information.
• UNIQUE! Includes a Management of Ingested Drug Overdose section for instant access to this critical information.
• Features a consistent format for quick reference: generic name, pronunciation, category, pregnancy category, brand name, manufacturer, dosage forms, use, action, pharmacokinetics, contraindications, clinical considerations, dosage, side/adverse effects, interactions, and nursing management priorities.
• Includes a comprehensive index with generic and trade names, drug classes, combination products and references to information found on the web site.
• Distinguishes between common and life-threatening side effects for drugs, educating students as to potential reactions and their significance.
• Contains the latest NANDA-I-approved nursing diagnoses for all drug categories, exposing students to the application of nursing diagnoses to pharmacology.
• Provides pronunciations for each generic drug and drug category to help you use and understand drug names in conversation.
• Free Evolve website provides abbreviated monographs for newly approved drugs and for selected drugs that are less commonly used, along with updates and alerts for drugs included in the printed card set, and links to websites of interest to nursing students learning pharmacology.
• Evolve website also includes an expanded drug name safety section and an online card creator.

• Contains approximately 14 new drugs and/or drug categories.
• Presents more than 100 new drug facts, providing access to the most current information, such as recent dosage forms, new brand names (including Canadian), contraindications, side effects, actions, drug interactions, uses, and nursing management priorities.