Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers (Book ) with CDROM [Hardcover]

Anita L. Wynne (Editor), Michael Millard (Editor), Teri Moser Woo (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0803605358 | ISBN-13: 978-0803605350 | Edition: CD-ROM

This work discusses the application of pharmacotherapeutics knowledge to the real world of daily clinical practice. It contains easy-to-understand illustrations of drug physiology and how drugs work in the body, as well as many drug tables, including drugs commonly used, pharmacokinetics, drug/food interactions, dosage schedules and available dosage forms. "On the horizon" boxes highlight potentially useful drugs currently in clinical trials, while "clinical pearls" provide insight from expert practitioners who use drugs on a daily basis in their practice and discuss how to help increase patient compliance, how to analyze potential drug interactions, and treatment selection reasoning.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1241 pages
• Publisher: F. A. Davis Company; CD-ROM edition (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803605358
• ISBN-13: 978-0803605350
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.9 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,222,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers, October 9, 2001

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Jan (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers (Book ) with CDROM (Hardcover)

The book is a little pricey but well worth the investment. It really covers everything you need to prescribe safely and effectively. It is one of the few books that I have seen that includes cultrual and ethnic influences, nutrition therapy, complementary medicine, and OTC's all together. It also reviews drugs by body system, age category, gender and multidrug therapy. This book allows you to get all your information in one place. It also covers legal and professional issues and prescribing unique to the Nurse Practitioner role. It has lots of tables packed with information and even comes with a CD-ROM. A great book for the student NP, newly practicing NP or even the experienced NP. I highly recommend this book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Graduate Student, March 28, 2008

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S. Salinas "PNPgradStudent" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers (Hardcover)

I'm currently taking pharmacology this semester and we are using this book. Most of the students in the class, including myself, found so many inconsistencies inside this book. I told my professor that she should consider changing textbooks for next semester, but I was told that the school has a "contract" and can't change textbooks. I ended up getting supplemental books to study from. I don't recommend this book for graduate study. It is too wordy and has too many inconsistencies.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Organized and Poorly Edited, January 25, 2010

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Amelia K. Judd "FNP Grad Student" (Fairfax, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers (Hardcover)

I purchased this book for a graduate pharmacology course. This textbook does present useful and practical information for the future nurse practitioner. The book has a more "real world" and practical bent than many pharmacology textbooks. The clinical pearls presented in the book are very good. Furthermore, the book addresses clinically relevant rationales for the prescription of one drug versus another, and also addresses cost of treatment.

However, information in the book is organized in an appalling manner. Information about specific drugs is often sprinkled about the chapter in such a disorganized and illogical fashion. My classmates and I find that we must take extensive notes while reading a chapter in order to have information about a specific drug all in one place. Otherwise, one must hunt and peck throughout the chapter when studying or reviewing a specific drug. And then, on the other hand, some information is simply repeated in different areas of the chapter. This textbook is the most poorly organized book that I have ever used in either my undergraduate or graduate studies.

The level of editing in this textbook is also appalling. At times, it is difficult to tell that the authors have moved on to a new subject so one must re-read the passage to make sure one is not confusing information about one drug with that of another. The sentences in the book are also sometimes confusing due to poor construction and improper use of pronouns. At times, the writing is just flat out poor, and is barely up to the quality that is expected of an undergraduate paper.

Avoid, avoid, avoid this book if you can. I don't usually take the time to review textbooks, but this book was such a disappointment that I felt compelled to warn others away from it.