Book, Clinical Pharmacology (Ford) 11/19[LS]

From the basic principles of Pharmacology to the handling of medications. Written entirely by nursing professionals, Clinical Pharmacology highlights the basic principles of Pharmacology and the nurse's responsibility in managing medications. Indispensable for good academic training and providing excellent care, this book provides knowledge about drugs and their effects, in addition to instructing how to pass on relevant information to patients and their caregivers. Structured in a didactic way, the content has several pedagogical resources that help in understanding and retaining the content, as well as improving critical thinking. In addition, the book features: ■ Unique concept mapping: helps students process and visualize important concepts ■ Mastery alerts that highlight and elucidate difficult-to-understand concepts ■ Pharmacology boxes that, in practice, focus on assessment, administration issues and guidance that influence patients in real life. ■ The Nursing Process section that shows the correlation of patient care and drugs and their administration schedules. It is also worth mentioning the importance of relevant Nursing Diagnoses in this context ■ The case study scenarios throughout all chapters that help students to get a sense of nursing practice in real life ■ Nursing Alerts identifying urgent nursing actions, necessary when a patient is using a certain class of drugs or specific drug ■ Drug interaction tables that provide succinct and crucial information about the likelihood of problems when multiple drugs are administered ■ Drug summary tables which list drugs from the classes covered in each chapter, including generic names, indications, frequent adverse reactions and general information about dosage ■ Patient considerations boxes that describe the demands of specific populations who are at increased risk for certain diseases or who need specific medications; the Herbal considerations boxes provide information on herbal medicines and complementary and alternative medicines; The Chronic Care Considerations boxes prepare nursing students and professionals for situations that may arise during the pharmacological treatment of patients with chronic diseases ■ The Chapter Review section is found at the end of all chapters and covers questions about calculating dosages of medications, as well as exam preparation questions.