Description
By Adriana Tiziani, Mary Bushell BPharm, Kobi Schutz, Shaunagh Darroch
Essential reference for students and clinicians
Havard’s Nursing Guide to Drugs is an indispensable guide for nurses and nursing students that can be used both as a quick reference for medicine information and to acquire a deeper understanding of safe and effective drug administration by nurses.
The guide is accessible and user-friendly. It provides all the information you need for safe administration of medication, with drugs classified by both therapeutic class and body system for easy navigation.
The twelfth edition has been comprehensively reviewed and updated to ensure that usage, dose, side effects, contraindications, and precautions are consistent with current Australian pharmaceutical guidelines.
- Easy-to-use format – search for drugs by therapeutic class or body system
- All the important information nurses need – poison information, formulae for calculations of drug doses and drip rates
- Nursing considerations such as patient safety, administration advice, and cautions
- Drug monographs include active ingredient and trade names, available forms, action, use, dosage, adverse effects, and interactions
- Patient education and advice notes to improve patient care and outcomes
- A separate, durable pocket card suitable for attaching to a lanyard with formulae, useful units, concentrations, and common abbreviations
New to this edition
- Each drug is reviewed to ensure its relevance for nurses in Australia
- Chapter introductions updated, citing the latest evidence, in a language that promotes nurse and nursing student understanding
- Updated icons offering a quick visual guide, helping readers locate key drug information, including pregnancy and breastfeeding safety, crushability, dosage adjustments, and considerations for older adults and in sports
- Therapeutic Goods Administration drug scheduling was incorporated specifically for Schedule 8 medications
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