Evolve Resources for Mosby's Drug Guide for Nursing Students, 16th Edition

• o Offers the most update-to-date dosage information, researched adverse effects, Black Box Warnings, nursing considerations and patient education so students have access to the best evidence-based medicine. • o Content on more than 4,000 generic and trade name drugs providing coverage for almost every drug a student is likely to encounter in clinicals. • o Black Box warning feature alerts students to FDA warnings of potentially life-threatening reactions. • o Safety Alert feature icon highlights the most critical interactions and side-effects that students must be aware of during clinicals. • o Bold heading and details on IV drug administration so students can easily find appropriate dosage and IV administration instructions to help them administer these drugs safely. • o Logical organization of side effects information: organized by body system and are identified as common or life threatening, showing nurses what signs to watch for during assessments. • o Nursing Process steps used as the framework to organize all nursing care information helps students learn how to easily and completely incorporate the nursing process into their clinical experiences. • o Logical alphabetical organization by generic name with both trade and generic names in the index, which gives users quick access to specific drugs. • o Complete pharmacokinetic information organized in a table and explains the mechanism and absorption of the drug as well as the action, duration and excretion of the drug. • o All of the drugs found in the appendixes have cross-reference headers in the body of the book, making it easier for users to find the drug content they need quickly and makes it less likely that a user will think a drug is missing if it is not in the body of the book.

• Provides 20-30 monographs on newly released, FDA-approved drugs and up-to-date content on the latest drug therapies.

Individual Drug Monographs (in alphabetical order by generic name)
Drug Categories
Appendixes

Linda Skidmore-Roth, RN, MSN, NP, Consultant, Littleton, Colorado; Former Nursing Faculty, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico; El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas