Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses - 9780803657069

SAFETY FIRST!

Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses^®Canadian Version, Fifteenth Edition delivers all of the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.

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• 5,000-drug database and appendices
• Cross-referencing of drugs
• FDA drug news

LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE ... AT A GLANCE

• Canadian-specific content 
  •  Monographs on drugs approved for use in Canada that are not FDA-approved for use in the US
  • Additional Canadian trade names for many US-approved generic drugs, identified by a maple leaf icon
  • A summary of the similarities and differences between pharmaceutical practices in the US and Canada
  • Special contributions by Holly G. Mansell, BSP, PharmD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
  • Canadian Advisory Board of clinicians, educators, and students
• Red tab for high alert medications,plus in-depth high alert and patient safety coverage
• Red, capitalized lettersfor life-threatening side effects
• NEW! REP heading for use of drugs in males and females of reproductive age
• Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-natural product interactions
• Pedi, Geri, OB, and Lactation cautions
• IV administration subheads
• REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
• Pharmacogenomic content and icon
• Much more!
  

LEARNING, CARE-PLANNING, AND PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS

Online at DavisPlus (Redeem thePlus Code on the inside front cover of a new, printed text to access your DavisPlus resources.)

• Audio library for 1,200+ drug names
• Three tutorials, each with a self-test
• Calculators for body mass index (BMI), metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage/kg, and Fahrenheit/Celsius
• Interactive case studies, brief, real-life scenarios that are followed by a series of question
• Med-Deck-style cards
• Video clips illustrating the safe administration of medications
• Animations demonstrating the administration and absorption of oral drugs
• Schematic brain illustrations depicting the impact of certain DSM disorders and the effect of psychotropic medications on patients