Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses Unknown - 2000

From the publisher

-- Free monthly updates available on the web at www.DrugGuide.com
-- The accompanying disk provides access to 500 drugs. Its features and capabilities include: -- Access to drugs by generic or trade name at the click of a mouse
-- The ability for students to make customized med cards, by printing drugs out before seeing a patient and having the information available at their fingertips-- Instant information on indications, actions, pharmacokinetics, contraindications, adverse reactions, interactions, route/dosage, availability, and nursing implications
-- Includes 100 new monographs, along with all the latest FDA information on new medications/warnings, dosage forms and unlabeled uses, life span considerations, and product withdrawals-- New appendix on frequently used natural, herbal, and complementary therapies
-- Includes over 4,600 trade and generic drugs-- New renal and hepatic impairment dosage alerts included where appropriate
-- Provides the most comprehensive patient/family teaching tips available-- Availability costs for wholesale price of average drug therapy is highlighted in second color
-- Much more IV drug information than any other source-- Generic availability indicated in applicable monographs
-- 475 commonly used combination drugs have been completely updated-- Flavors of meds included where appropriate
-- Includes 100 full-color images of the most commonly prescribed brand names-- 69 comprehensive drug classifications; each monograph lists the therapeutic and pharmacologic classification
-- Intravitreal route added to route and dosage section-- Side effects are organized by body systems with the mostfrequent problems underlined and Life Threatening problems capitalized and set in a second color for easy identification
-- IV therapy tips organized by direct IV (IV rate times), intermittent infusion, and continuous infusion; rate times are prominently displayed-- Visit our website at www.DrugGuide.com, the latest installment in F. A. Davis's pharmacology suite. Full text monographs, articles on contemporary issues relating to pharmacology recently adjusted dosage information, and links to other pharmacology-related sites are just some of the features that can be found.