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Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Sixth Edition
Amy M. Karch, MSN, RN
978-1-4511-2834-5 • October 2012 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 1080 pp. • 238 Illus.
Amy Karch has found that students learn best when concepts are
built upon each other, growing from simple to complex, building on a
foundation of understanding. Organized by body systems, this heavily
illustrated book organizes essential nursing pharmacology information
into focused, easy-to-learn steps. Building key concepts upon each
other, the text gives students a solid foundation of understanding. Easy
to understand drug prototype boxes are integrated throughout the
book as well as integrated content summaries.
Drug discussions include therapeutic actions and indications,
pharmacokinetics, contraindications and cautions and adverse effects.
Detailed rationales are presented throughout. Each chapter opens
with Learning Objectives and a Glossary of Key Terms, and ends with
NCLEX
®
-style questions, and contains a case study-based critical
thinking exercise that sets up a situation, shows critical thinking, and
then presents a discussion and case-based nursing care guide.
Features
•
NEW!
Each drug chapter has a common figure showing the most
commonly anticipated adverse effects for drug classes, to alert
students to adverse effects to anticipate and include in patient
teaching.
• More figures depicting drug actions than any competing book.
•
Focus on Feature
,
Focus on Safe Medication Administration
for
emphasis on patient safety and the prevention of errors.
•
Key Points
are placed several times throughout each chapter to
summarize need-to-know content.
•
Drugs in Focus
tables feature a NEW prototype drug icon to
quickly locate the prototype drug for a particular drug class. This
icon first appears in the drug list in the beginning of each drug
chapter, and is repeated in Nursing Considerations sections and in
Prototype Summary boxes for easy recognition of these important
medications.
•
Critical Thinking Scenarios
tie each chapter’s content together by
presenting clinical scenarios about a patient using a particular drug
from the class being discussed.
•
Check Your Understanding
sections present NCLEX
®
-style
questions, including alternate format questions, to help the student
prepare for the NCLEX
®
. Other questions and activities are designed
to help students test their knowledge of the information that has
been learned in the chapter.
Table of Contents
Part 1:
Introduction to Nursing
Pharmacology
Part 2:
Chemotherapeutic Agents
Part 3:
Drugs Acting on the Immune
System
Part 4:
Drugs Acting on the Central
and Peripheral Nervous Systems
Part 5:
Drugs Acting on the
Autonomic Nervous System
Part 6:
Drugs Acting on the Endocrine
System
Part 7:
Drugs Acting on the
Reproductive System
Part 8:
Drugs Acting on the
Cardiovascular System
Part 9:
Drugs Acting on the Renal
System
Part 10:
Drugs Acting on the
Respiratory System
Part 11:
Drugs Acting on the
Gastrointestinal System
Study Guide for Focus on Nursing Pharmacology,
Sixth Edition
Amy M. Karch, MSN, RN
978-1-4511-5166-4 •October2012 •Softbound •8.375”x10.825” •288pp.
Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, Seventh Edition
Amy M. Karch, MSN, RN
978-1-4963-1821-3 •October2016 •Hardbound •8.375”x10.875” •1080pp
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