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Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers (Book ) with CDROM

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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.

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.

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.

I have never read such lousy writing and ideas in a textbook before. Their extensive use of acronyms (TLC, AFB, ARB, NIUTCHM) is ungodly. The case histories are totally unbelievable. These writers couldn't be further removed from the real world of patient care.

Complete waste of money!

While I appreciate that this textbook is written by and for nurse practitioners, a close reading of this book will expose an incredible lack of editing. This was the assigned text for my Pharmacology for Advanced Practice class, and my classmates, instructors, and I found numerous mistakes and inconsistencies throughout the book - to the extent that the instructor will no longer use this text for her class.
Not only are there numerous superficial editing mistakes, there are several contradictions in content on crucial pharmacological concepts. I do not trust this book as a source of information, and I do not recommend it for anyone. This text requires extensive editing and re-working to be useful.

This is one of the worst textbooks that I have ever used. It was assigned in my class, and I was forced to read many chapters in their entirety. There are numerous grammatical errors also. DO NOT BUY THIS WORTHLESS BOOK!

This book was a required text for my advanced pharmacology class, and I wish I never had to purchase it. The editors of this book must be non-medical, because the drugs are described throughout several chapter which make reading undesireable.

I bought this book two months ago and it has been an excellent resource. I am currently taking an advanced course of pharmacology (FNP-S) and after reviewing several other textbooks I decided that this was the best one. If you are working towards an advanced degree in nursing this is a "must have textbook". I strongly recommend it.

The book covers the entire spectrum of prescribing from the eyes of a nurse in advanced practice not from the eyes of a pharmaceutical. If you need to know the chemistry and the composition of drugs you need to look for another book.

J.M "family Nurse Practitioner"-Student

This text is awful. It is very hard to follow and is not nearly as in-depth as it should be. It is poorly organized. For example, if you look up "ACE Inhibitor" in the Index, its listed on 39 pages, ranging from p75-1086. Obviously, these are not all in the same chapter. Its mentioned in the chapters entitled: Culture and Ethnic Influences etc, Drugs affecting the cardiovascular and renal systems, Drugs affecting the Hematopoietic system, Drugs affecting the endocrine system, drugs affecting the reproductive system, a chapter about Angina, a chapter about Diabetes, a chapter about heart failure, and a chapter about hyperlipidemia. As you can see, this is just one example of how spread out information is and how it is hard to get a concise view of a drug or method of treatment. I would not recommend this book. I gave it one star because Amazon makes you give it at least one star.

This text has been very informative for my pharmacology class. Despite using the verbose, but necessary scientific words involved when discussing pharmacokinetics- it is very user friendly and easy to read and interpret.