Mosby's 2005 Nursing Drug Reference

By Linda Skidmore-Roth

Book Overview

Thoroughly revised and updated every year, this portable, up-to-date handbook contains all the essential information needed to safely administer thousands of generic and trade name drugs. It features more than 2,000 new drug facts including new and revised nursing considerations, patient and family teaching guidelines, and side effects, adverse reactions, precautions, interactions, contraindications, IV therapy facts, and hundreds of additional herbal and alternative interactions. Many special features promote safe medication administration and prevention of drug errors, including identification of high alert drugs, do-not-crush and nursing alert icons, do-not-confuse cautions, new FDA recommended "Tall man" spellings, and overdose treatment. Includes a DrugPro mini CD-ROM with patient teaching guides, a drug-interaction tool, and detailed monographs of about 30 popular herbal products.Highlights High Alert drugs to caution nurses to use extra care in administering drugs most likely to cause patient harm.Features Research headings to denote drugs currently involved in important research studies.Features more than 100 Do Not Crush icons to denote drugs that may not be administered in crushed form.Presents more than 1,300 generic drugs (encompassing more than 4,500 trade names) in an alphabetical organization for quick clinical reference.Provides extensive nursing considerations in a concise, practice-oriented framework: Assess, Administer, Perform/Provide, Evaluate, and Teach Patient/Family.Organizes monographs alphabetically by generic drug name to allow for fast retrieval of needed information.Offers lifespan content via coverage of geriatric, pediatric, and pregnancy considerations throughout.Highlights common and life-threatening side effects in different typefaces for easy identification, with side effects listed in decreasing order of likelihood.Identifies critical nursing considerations with a special Nursing Alert icon to identify considerations that require special attention.Features over 400 potential interactions between drugs and herbal products, denoted by an eye-catching icon.Nursing Drug Dosage Calculators provide users with quick, portable confirmation of key drug calculations.Groups IV drug information under the monograph subheading Administer, with a boldface IV heading ensuring that all of the IV drug administration content is grouped together in one easy-to-find place.Includes all drug compatibility information under the Administer monograph subheading to make this crucial information easy to locate.Includes a separate section of drug category information that includes nursing considerations and a list of common generic drugs in each category.Provides a complete clinical reference by including appendixes of recent FDA drug approvals; ophthalmic, otic, nasal, and topical products; vaccines and toxoids, combination products; less frequently used antihistamines; FDA pregnancy categories; controlled substances; commonly used abbreviations; weights and equivalents; formulas for drug calculations; nomogram for calculation of body surface area; and commonly used antibiotics in adults and children.Features a 16-page insert containing a drug identification guide with 160 new full-color photographs of frequently prescribed tablets and capsules, to help nurses identify common drugs and deliver safe, quality patient care; photos are arranged alphabetically by generic name, with common trade names and dosage strengths included. It also has been completely updated to reflect the top 50 prescribed drugs in 2003.Lists over 1,700 pairs of look-alike/sound-alike drug names under special Do Not Confuse headings within drug monographs to help nurses avoid administering the wrong drug.Provides a Syringe Compatibility Chart inside the front cover and an IV Drug/Solution Compatibility Chart inside the back cover.A special Herbal Product icon highlights over 700 potential interactions between drugs and herbal products and an Herbal Products appendix also lists over 75 popular herbal supplements and their uses.The Combination Products appendix includes nearly 900 commonly used combination products, their individual components, and their uses.Offers a flexible, water-resistant cover that provides durability in the clinical setting.Includes a DrugPro mini CD-ROM that contains a comprehensive drug interaction tool, over 200 patient teaching guidelines in English and Spanish, and detailed monographs for more than 30 of the most popular herbal products.Includes free Internet updates to provide users with the latest drug alerts, abbreviated new drug monographs, tables of recently released U.S. and Canadian drugs, links to useful drug-related websites, an extensive table of orphan drugs, a detailed table of AHA drug dosing guidelines based on the 2000 AHA standards, and a comprehensive drug safety reference.Contains approximately 20 new monographs for drugs recently approved by the FDA to provide the very latest drug information plus a table of newly approved drugs with generic names, trade names, and uses.Presents more than 2,000 new drug facts, including patient/family teaching guidelines as well as updated drug interactions, side effects, precautions, contraindications, and IV therapy facts.Features new "Tall man" spellings for easily confused drug names in accordance with the latest FDA recommendations.A Look-alike/sound-alike Drug Names appendix has been updated and expanded to include nearly 1,200 pairs of drug names that may be easily confused.An updated functional, two-color design highlights all monograph subheadings, while alphabetical organization and A-to-Z thumb tabs allow instant retrieval of essential information.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323023096
• ISBN13: 9780323023092
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 1280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 1.5" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Drug Reference for Nurse's

This drug reference book makes it easy to find the drugs you have questions about, look at drug-to-drug interactions, affected lab values etc... Mosby's Drug Reference is good for professional use in clinical environments or for the average person who wants to understand medications they or someone they love are taking. The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that there are some medications available now that might not be in this edition. That doesn't matter too much if you are using commonly prescribed drugs or medications that have been around for awhile. I would highly recommend this product. Grady

Easy Set-Up and Find

This is the second time I have bought an edition of Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference books. Last one was 2006 edition. I find it easy to use, easy to read and easy to locate drug in question. I am a Medical Trauma Coder and would not be with out it. Would highly recommend this reference book: "Mosby's 2008 Nursing Drug Reference". M. Robinson

Honest

The book was as good as new. It was promised to be in great shape and it was. Thanks for the honesty. I would definitly order from this rescouce again. thanks

Great resource for nursing students

This book is highly recommended for both classroom and clinical work. I have found it to be helpful on many levels. The book reviews drugs as well as drug classes. Each entry outlines:Mechanism of actionUsesSide effects and adverse reactionsContraindicationsPharmacokeneticsInteractionsPossible nursing diagnosisNursing considerations (such as assessing, administering, teaching patient and family)In addition to the entries the appendix offeres a wealth of info including high alert drugs, formulas for dosage calcualation, FDA pregnancy categories, and much more. Of course, as with any drug book, you can expect some drugs to be missing as so many new drugs are introduced that it is hard to keep up. Nonetheless, Mosby's book is well written and easy to navigate.

Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference 2000

Hello! I am in my first year of nursing school, and we have to do drug cards that must include things like the trade name, generic name, action of drug, its uses, side effects, how to administer it, how to evalutate its effects, and what we need to teach our patients about the drug. Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference 2000 gives you exactly that, the information you need and in easy to read terms. This book also offers other drug interactions plus herbal med. interactions. This book has been a great help to me and an asset to my nursing career, it helps me to know not only what the drug is for, but why I am giving it and how it works. I recommend this to any nurse or student nurse.