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Nursing 2006 Drug Handbook (Nursing Drug Handbook) [26th Edition]

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This is an excellent resource for both professional and paraprofessionals who are administering medications. I particularily like the patient teaching section. I like the disk for printing drug information pages, which I place with the medication administration record for all staff to read.

As a physician, I used to turn to the PDR for drug guidance, but it seems that only the profitable [ie, proprietary] drugs are listed there. I've often used my RN wife's NDH, recently replaced by the 2006 version. Try to find niacin (for hypercholesterolemia) in the PDR for instance - whereas the NDH has a compact yet thorough description of indications, dosing, adverse effects and fundamental pharmacology. The little CD enclosed prepares patient information on some 200 common drugs. All told, this is a neat yet compact drug reference guide. Not inexpensive, but highly recommended.

I have used this product for years in my nursing practice. I depend upon the "Nursing Considerations" section to assist me with patient teaching and care planning.

I went to look up Zarontin, and it wasn't in this book (had obscure information under ethosuximide, though). It is a commonly prescribed to control absence seizures. So I'd like to know why this drug wasn't in there. I went to make a suggestion to the publisher, and you have to fill out a questionaire to be a reviewer. I'm not going to go through all that to share a helpful suggestion.
It's wonderful, otherwise, but a common drug exclusion made me wish I had purchased another drug reference.

HAVE BEEN USING THIS BOOK FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS-GENERALLY GOOD, HAVE NOTICED SOME DRUGS MISSING OR DIFFICULT TO CROSS REFERENCE...ALSO LACKING IN "ACTION OF MEDICATION"INFORMATION.

A former student of mine, when I was an English teacher in Ethiopia, is currently in the medical school in Gondar, Ethiopia. He requested a book which would describe medicine and would also list possible side-effects. This book seems to fit his need. I'm mailing it to him to be used in Ethiopia as he practices medicine there.