cover image - Study Guide for Understanding Pharmacology - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323825764
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 05-30-2023
Page Count: 152
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $34.99

Study Guide for Understanding Pharmacology - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 3rd Edition

by M. Linda Workman, PhD, RN, FAAN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card

cover image - Study Guide for Understanding Pharmacology - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323825764
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 05-30-2023
Page Count: 152
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $34.99
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This study guide for Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition offers content review and a wide range of engaging activities and medication safety practice questions to help students master pharmacology concepts, learn drug safety, and practice dosage calculation.

    • NEW! Case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX® in clinical chapters help students practice for the next generation licensure exam.
    • Updated exercises cover newly approved pharmaceutical treatments and drugs.
    • A variety of learning activities, including matching, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, identification, and multiple-choice questions, plus crossword puzzles, help reinforce learning.
    • Medication Safety Practice sections emphasize important safety concepts related to medication administration.
    • Practice quizzes, comprised of multiple-choice and select-all-that-apply questions for the NCLEX®, assess students’ knowledge of important chapter concepts to prepare them for the NCLEX-PN® and NCLEX-RN® Examinations.
    • Reader-friendly writing style and organization increases understanding for entry-level students.
    • NEW! Case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX® in clinical chapters help students practice for the next generation licensure exam.
    • Updated exercises cover newly approved pharmaceutical treatments and drugs.
  • 1. Drug Therapy: Roles, Regulations, Actions, and Responses
    2. Safely Preparing and Giving Drugs
    3. Mathematics Review and Introduction to Dosage Calculations
    4. Medical Systems of Weights and Measures
    5. Dosage Calculation of Intravenous Solutions and Drugs
    6. Anti-Infectives: Antibacterial Drugs
    7. Anti-Infectives: Antiviral Drugs
    8. Anti-Infectives: Antitubercular and Antifungal Drugs
    9. Drugs for Pain Control, Migraines, and Skeletal Muscle Spasms
    10. General Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
    11. Immunizations and Immunosuppressant Drugs
    12. Drugs That Affect Urine Output
    13. Drug Therapy for Hypertension
    14. Drug Therapy for Heart Failure
    15. Drug Therapy for Dysrhythmias
    16. Drug Therapy for High Blood Lipids
    17. Drugs That Affect Blood Clotting
    18. Drug Therapy for Asthma and Other Respiratory Problems
    19. Drug Therapy for Gastrointestinal Problems
    20. Drug Therapy for Gastric Ulcers, Reflux, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    21. Drug Therapy for Diabetes
    22. Drug Therapy for Thyroid and Adrenal Gland Problems
    23. Drug Therapy for Seizures
    24. Drug Therapy for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases
    25. Drug Therapy for Psychiatric Problems
    26. Drug Therapy for Insomnia
    27. Drug Therapy for Eye Problems
    28. Drug Therapy for Male Reproductive Problems
    29. Drug Therapy for Female Reproductive Problems
  • M. Linda Workman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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