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Pharmacology • Dosage Calculation
Nursing2016 Drug Handbook, Thirty-Sixth Edition
Lippincott
978-1-4698-8704-3 • May 2015 • Softbound • 5” x 8” • 1672 pp
The 36th edition of the best-selling, original drug handbook for
nurses provides complete monographs for more than 900 generic
and thousands of brand-name drugs. Monographs are consistently
formatted for ease of use and focus on the practical information that
nurses need.
Features
• You can also count on Nursing2016 Drug Handbook to tell you
unapproved, off-label drug uses so you’ll always know why a drug is
prescribed. And, this year, be a more confident nurse with fingertip
access to.
•
NEW!
FDA-approved drugs
•
NEW!
Appendices on Serotonin syndrome, Tumor lysis syndrome,
and the Nursing Process and Drug Therapy
•
NEW!
Appendices on Canadian drugs and safety concerns: Do Not
Use chart (ISMP Canada), Decision Tree, Canadian National Drug
Schedules.
With the safeguards you’ll find only in the Nursing2016 Drug
Handbook, it’s easier than ever to stay current on the more than
4,500 latest changes to drug information and to avoid even the
most common medication errors:
• Adjust-a-dose feature for dosage adjustments needed by special
populations
• Administration guidelines for all appropriate routes
• Expanded full-color pill guide containing more drug images than in
any previous edition!
• Increased coverage of adverse reactions! Includes those that occur
with 1% & greater frequency, with special emphasis on life-
threatening adverse reactions
• Chapters on drug classes, drug safety, drug interactions, and drug
therapy across the lifespan
• Elder care medication tips and pediatric drug-error information in
appendices
• Evidence-based off-label indications and dosages
• FDA Black Box Warnings in appropriate drug monographs
• Interactions by Drug-drug, Drug-food, Drug-lab tests, Drug-
alternative therapy clearly identified
• Overdose signs & symptoms, where appropriate
• Safe Drug Administration chapter focuses on the most current
guidelines, ISMP initiatives, and contemporary patient safety
issues (such as REMS), preventing and treating extravasation, and
preventing exposure to hazardous drugs
• Safety alert icon for potentially toxic drugs, I.V. drug incompatibility,
dialyzable drugs, toxic drug-drug interactions, and much more.
Table of Contents
Contents Anatomy of a monograph
Contributors and consultants
How to use Nursing2016 Drug
Handbook®
Quick guide to special symbols, logos,
and highlighted terms
Guide to abbreviations
General information
1. Drug actions, interactions, and
reactions
2. Drug therapy across the lifespan
3. Safe drug administration
Alphabetical listing of drugs by generic
name
Appendices
1. Avoiding common drug errors: Best
practices and prevention
2. Pregnancy risk categories: The FDA’s
Final Rule.
3. Controlled substance schedules
4. Abbreviations to avoid
5. Pediatric drugs commonly involved
in drug errors
6. Elder care medication tips
7. Drugs that prolong the QTc interval
8. Therapeutic drug monitoring
guidelines
9. Cytochrome P-450 enzymes and
common drug interactions
…Abridged to fit
Nursing2017 Drug Handbook
Lippincott
978-1-4963-2255-5 •May2016 •Softbound •5”x8” •1600pp
NEW