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FocusonNursingPharmacology,SixthEdition AmyM.Karch,MSN, RN 978-1-4511-2834-5 •October2012 • Softbound •8.375” x10.875” • 1080pp. •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 bookorganizes essential nursing pharmacology information into focused, easy-to-learn steps. Building key concepts upon each other, the text gives students a solid foundationof understanding. Easy to understand drug prototype boxes are integrated throughout the book aswell 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 LearningObjectives and aGlossary 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 thenpresents adiscussionand case-basednursing careguide. Features • NEW! Eachdrug chapter has a commonfigure showing themost commonlyanticipatedadverseeffects fordrug classes, toalert students toadverseeffects toanticipateand include inpatient teaching. • Morefiguresdepictingdrugactions thanany competingbook. • FocusonFeature , FocusonSafeMedicationAdministration for emphasisonpatient safetyand thepreventionof errors. • KeyPoints areplaced several times throughout each chapter to summarizeneed-to-know content. • Drugs inFocus tables featureaNEWprototypedrug icon to quickly locate theprototypedrug for aparticulardrug class.This iconfirst appears in thedrug list in thebeginningof eachdrug chapter, and is repeated inNursingConsiderations sections and in PrototypeSummaryboxes for easy recognitionof these important medications. • CriticalThinkingScenarios tieeach chapter’s content together by presenting clinical scenarios about apatient usingaparticulardrug from the class beingdiscussed. • CheckYourUnderstanding sections presentNCLEX ® -style questions, includingalternate formatquestions, tohelp the student prepare for theNCLEX ® .Other questions andactivities aredesigned tohelp students test their knowledgeof the information that has been learned in the chapter.

Table of Contents Part1: Introduction toNursing Pharmacology  Part2: ChemotherapeuticAgents  Part3: DrugsActingon the Immune System  Part4: DrugsActingon theCentral andPeripheralNervousSystems 

Pharmacology • Dosage Calculation Part5: DrugsActingon the AutonomicNervousSystem  Part6: DrugsActingon theEndocrine System  Part7: DrugsActingon the ReproductiveSystem  Part8: DrugsActingon the CardiovascularSystem  Part9: DrugsActingon theRenal System Part10: DrugsActingon the RespiratorySystem  Part11: DrugsActingon the Gastrointestinal System 

StudyGuide for FocusonNursingPharmacology, SixthEdition AmyM.Karch,MSN, RN 978-1-4511-5166-4 •October2012 •Softbound •8.375”x10.825” •288pp.