Main description:

This text presents a complete nursing-focused framework for teaching and learning nursing pharmacology, and 'places the patient' at the center of all drug and drug administration decisions and considerations. The book presents core drug knowledge using prototypes of different drug classes and emphasizes core patient variables that influence the patient's response to therapy. Features include abundant review questions, concept maps, drug summary tables, drug interaction tables, and critical thinking scenarios that teach students how to apply pharmacology knowledge to patient care. "Lippincott's Photo Atlas of Medication Administration" comes with this book. "Photo Atlas" uses the nursing process format to provide step-by-step nursing skills (with rationales). In addition to being completely illustrated, the "Photo Atlas" also contains documentation guidelines and samples, and unexpected situations, which explain how to respond to unanticipated outcomes. Topics include removing medication from an ampule, removing medication from a vial, mixing medications from two vials in one syringe, administering an intradermal injection, and more.