Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing (Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing, 20th ed) [Hardcover]

Leda M. McKenry (Author), Evelyn Salerno (Author), Judith Myers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0815145152 | ISBN-13: 978-0815145158 | Edition: 20th

This text is one of the most comprehensive sources in the nursing pharmacology market. The 20th edition provides thorough coverage of more than 1,000 generic and trade drugs, including more than 200 new drugs recently approved by the FDA. Two new chapters are presented on over-the-counter medications and alternative medications. Other new features include boxes on the management of drug overdoses and highlighted content on serious drug interactions. This book features extensive pedagogy, including chapter overview, chapter objectives, key terms, critical thinking questions, case studies, and new collaborative activities at the end of each chapter. Features: * Explanations of drug groups and individual drugs feature significant drug interactions and dosage and administration guidelines to provide the student with the most thorough and comprehensive information available. * Key Drugs are given more thorough treatment and highlighted with an icon for quick identification in the chapter. * The nursing process highlights important nursing content related to the specific drugs or drug groups. * Features drug reference tables to make information more accessible and enhance the text's utility as a reference. * Presents case studies highlighting specific clinical situations, with critical thinking questions, to illustrate clinical applicability. Answers are in the Instructor's Resource Kit. * Presents featured boxes on nursing research, cultural implications, and home health care to highlight these important issues. * Critical thinking questions for each chapter help students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. * Provides a separate disorder index that features alphabetical reference to disorders, conditions, and diseases in the text for easier access. NEW FEATURES: * Includes two new chapters: Over-the-Counter Medications (Chapter 11) and Alternative and Complementary Pharmacology (Chapter 12) to feature these growing areas in today's health care environment. * Features new boxes on management of drug overdose to alert the nurse to important information and guidelines regarding overdoses for specific medications. * Provides collaborative activities at the end of each chapter to encourage students to apply critical thinking skills to problems that involve interaction with other students. * Highlights serious drug interactions to alert the student to potential problems. * Provides a patient teaching disk with each book to provide more information about patient teaching related to approximately 30 drugs included in the textbook, also includes a free quick reference for medication administration. * Includes approximately 180 new illustrations to help explain how drugs work in the body and to help define other pharmacologic principles.

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About the Author

Leda M. McKenry, PhD, CRN, FNP, Associate Professor and Director of Academic Outreach, School of Nursing University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Evelyn Salerno, RPh, BS, PharmD, FASCP, Courtesy Professor, School of Nursing, Florida International University, MIami, FL; Clinical Assistant Professor, Nova-Southeastern College of Pharmacy, Miami, FL --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1180 pages
• Publisher: Mosby-Year Book; 20th edition (January 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815145152
• ISBN-13: 978-0815145158
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,679,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pharmacology Book, March 12, 2007

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This review is from: Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing (Hardcover)

This book is not very hard to understand, it is straight forward. It explain a lot of things in detail. If you want to learn pharmacology, I will recommend this book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Textbook, November 3, 2006

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MediuMaintenance (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing (Hardcover)

This is a required text for my Nursing Pharmacology class. The text is pretty good. It's straightforward and easy to understand. There are also nice review chapters of different body systems before the chapters on the drugs for the different body systems. There are also continuous case studies throughout the chapter to help you apply the knowledge in the text. The only thing I'm torn about whether I like it or not is how the drugs are presented. There are small sections within the text for each drug that present Pharmcokinetics/ADR, Drug interactions, etc, but it can be difficult to go through all the drug info when you're learning about the drug for the first time. I'm not sure if the drug info would be better placed in boxes separate from the main text. Either way, that doesn't detract from the good info in the text.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concise & Informative, February 1, 2009

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This review is from: Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing (Hardcover)

pharmacology was a subject that my brother, my sister and even my mom all had a hard time with. this book was very clear-cut on info about different drugs i had to study (dosage, effects on different age groups, drug interactions, etc.) without a lot of dancing around like most textbooks do. has case studies within the chapters which are pretty interesting to read (but they usually only cover the effects of 2-3 drugs most of the time). not too many bad things to say about this book. i suppose the size and weight of it can be somewhat intimidating, but that goes for most science books.