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Pharmacology

Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, 1st UK Edition Amy M. Karch

Fully adapted for the UK, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organised by body system, the book explains the rationale for each drug class’s therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, using the British National Formulary as its reference guide. Each chapter opens with learning objectives and ends with questions to reinforce learning. Illustrations, tables, side bars, and boxes summarise concepts and focus attention on critical thinking, patient safety, evidence-based practice, lifespan issues, patient teaching, and case study- based critical thinking exercises.

978-1-9018-3101-6 / 1088 pp / 2010 / £45.00 €53.00

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! 5th Edition Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! contains everything health care practitioners need to review and students need to learn about calculating drug dosages. This entertaining and informative reference reviews the basic math needed to perform dosage calculation, including fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. It walks the nurse through the interpretation of hundreds of examples of drug orders and the performance of hundreds of complex dosage calculations, and provides information on deciphering difficult abbreviations, dealing with unclear handwriting, reading medication labels, selecting administration equipment, and more.

978-1-4963-0837-5 / 392 pp / 473 illus / 2015 / £41.00 €48.00