Gain the pharmacology knowledge and skills you need to administer medications safely! Pharmacology and the Nursing Process, 10th Edition, provides practical, easy-to-use pharmacology information, emphasizing the application of the nursing process and prioritization throughout the book. Coverage begins with pharmacology basics, then discusses drugs by body systems and drug functions. Hundreds of full-color illustrations show how drugs work in the body and depict key steps in medication administration. This bestselling textbook was written by Linda Lane Lilley, Shelly Rainforth Collins, and Julie S. Snyder. It makes it easy to understand and apply pharmacology concepts and provide safe, quality nursing care.
- Focus on need-to-know information includes discussing what nurses may encounter during drug administration in various healthcare settings, providing accounts of real-life medication errors, and tips for avoiding those errors.
- The Nursing Process is applied to each category of drugs, ensuring that medications are administered accurately and safely. It includes the steps of assessment, human need statements, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Emphasis on drug classes describes critical similarities and differences among the drugs in each class, making it easier to understand how individual drugs work in the body.
- Consistent presentation for each drug group includes the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, adverse effects, interactions, and dosages, concluding with drug profiles of individual drugs in the class or group.
- High-alert icons identify medications that pose a greater risk to patient safety.
- Focus on prioritization includes prioritized nursing diagnoses along with corresponding prioritization of goals and outcomes to help you learn to connect nursing diagnoses with goals and outcomes.
- Ease of readability makes complex content more understandable.
- The photo atlas features over 100 drawings and photographs showing drug administration techniques.
- Dosages tables summarize generic and trade names, pharmacologic class, normal dosage ranges, and indications for the drugs.
- Learning features at the beginning of each chapter include objectives and key terms, and at the end of each chapter, key points, critical thinking questions, review questions, and a list of resources available on the Evolve website.
- QSEN coverage includes human need theory with human need statements, case studies featuring collaboration and teamwork content, Preventing Medication Errors boxes, and a discussion of the QSEN initiative regarding the safety and quality of patient care.
- NEW! Updated drug content reflects the latest FDA drug approvals, withdrawals, and therapeutic uses and includes updated nursing content
