Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition

By M. Linda Workman PhD RN FAAN, Linda A. LaCharity PhD RN

Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition is a comprehensive guide that uses simplified language, easy-to-follow headers, and engaging boxes and icons to help you understand how drugs work. This book is designed to ensure you have all the tools and information you need to safely prepare and administer drugs.

Key Features:

• Updated drug tables with nursing implications ensure you are equipped with the latest information on drug safety and administration.
• Online case studies help you prepare for the Next Generation NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN.
• Priority Actions sections emphasize important aspects of drug administration, monitoring, follow-up, and patient teaching.
• Life span considerations outline nursing implications for drugs used in children, older adults, and pregnant women.
• Math and dosage calculations review reinforces medication preparation safety.
• Get Ready for the NCLEX Examination! sections at the end of each chapter summarize key points and provide review questions that reinforce important concepts learned in the chapter.
• Cartoon icons in Common Side Effects boxes help visual learners remember essential drug side effects.
• Drug Alert and Do Not Confuse boxes highlight areas of common drug/dosage errors.
• Memory Jogger boxes help you retain important drug information.
• Try This! boxes in the math chapter allow you to practice dosage calculation concepts.
• New! Clinical Judgment questions at the end of each clinical chapter offer additional self-assessment on pharmacology and medication administration.
• New! Critical Point for Safety boxes emphasize very important pharmacologic concepts to remember.
• New! Approximately 40 animations on the companion Evolve website supplement important concepts related to understanding pharmacology.
• New! Printed answer key with rationales in the back of the book makes it easy to check your answers and assess your comprehension.
• Updated! Revised drug tables provide adult dosages and nursing implications for individual drugs.

Product Details:

Publisher: Saunders; 3rd edition (March 23, 2023)

Language: English

Pages: 608

ISBN-10: 0323793509

ISBN-13: 978-0323793506