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Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice

  • 3rd Edition - June 2, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Linda Lane Lilley, Beth Swart, Julie S. Snyder
  • Language: English

Let this outstanding, reader-friendly pharmacology text help guide you through the detailed world of nursing pharmacology. Now in its third edition, Pharmacology for Canadian Healt… Read more

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Let this outstanding, reader-friendly pharmacology text help guide you through the detailed world of nursing pharmacology. Now in its third edition, Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice covers all the key pharmacology content needed by today’s nursing students. Known for its appealing layout, wealth of photos, and helpful boxed features, this engaging text brings important pharmacology concepts to life. The text’s popular key drug approach focuses only on the drug information you need to know. Along with its exam preparation and insightful learning strategies, this is your complete pharmacology text!

Key features

  • Popular key drug approach
    •  focuses on the need-to-know content for safe clinical practice and uses a streamlined approach to drug indications, emphasizing only the most common or serious adverse effects.
  • Clear, colourful and consistent learner-friendly format utilizes a variety of tables and practical body systems organization to help you integrate pharmacology content with what you are learning in medical-surgical and adult health nursing courses.
  • Focus on prioritization includes prioritized nursing diagnoses along with corresponding prioritization of goals and outcomes, helping you learn to connect nursing diagnoses to goals and outcomes.
  • Large collection of reader-friendly learning aids includes approachable text elements such as:

      • Cartoon-illustrated study skills tips

        • covering study, time management, and test-taking tips related to studying pharmacology
      • Drug profiles highlighting specific information on commonly-used agents
      • Patient teaching tips outlining useful patient information specific to each drug group
      • Evidence in Practice boxes featuring current research and findings relevant to nursing pharmacology
      • Lab Values Related to Drug Therapy summary boxes covering therapeutic levels of various drugs
      • Preventing Medication Errors boxes reinforcing concepts introduced in the medication errors chapter and relating them to specific common errors that occur in nursing pharmacology
      • Ethnocultural Implications boxes discussing differences to expect among cultural or ethnic groups
      • Dosages tables providing instant access to dosages, routes, and indications for individual drugs
      • Natural Health Products boxes providing an Overview, Common Uses, Adverse Effects, Potential Drug Interactions, and Contraindications for popular herbal therapies
      • Special Populations Considerations boxes highlighting critical points related to drug therapy in children, adolescents, women and older adult patients
      • Key points summarizing key pharmacology and nursing content in each chapter
      • Legal and Ethical Principles boxes promoting awareness of liability issues and proper professional conduct
      • Pharmacokinetic Bridge to Nursing Practice feature covering topics such as heart failure, women’s health issues, iron, and monitoring renal function
      • More than 250 full-colour photos and illustrations (many updated for this edition) showing how drugs work in the body and how to administer medications safely and effectively
      • Examination review questions in every chapter

Table of contents

Part One: Pharmacology Basics
Study Skills Tips

1. Nursing Practice in Canada and Drug Therapy

2. Pharmacological Principles

3. Legal and Ethical Considerations

4. Patient Focused Considerations

5. Gene Therapy and Pharmacogenomics

6. Medication Errors: Preventing and Responding

7. Patient Education and Drug Therapy

8. Over-the-Counter Drugs and Natural Health Products

9. Vitamins and Minerals

10. Principles of Drug Administration

Part Two: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System
Study Skills Tips

11. Analgesic Drugs

12. General and Local Anaesthetics

13. Central Nervous System Depressants and Muscle Relaxants

14. Central Nervous System Stimulants and Related Drugs

15. Antiepileptic Drugs

16. Antiparkinsonian Drugs

17. Psychotherapeautic Drugs

18. Substance Misuse

Part Three: Drugs Affecting the Autonomic Nervous System
Study Skills Tips

19. Adrenergic Drugs

20. Adrenergic-Blocking Drugs

21. Cholinergic Drugs

22. Cholinergic Blocking Drugs

Part Four: Drugs Affecting the Cardiovascular and Renal Systems
Study Skills Tips

23. Antihypertensive Drugs

24. Antianginal Drugs

25. Heart Failure Drugs

26. Antidysrhythmic Drugs

27. Coagulation Modifier Drugs

28. Antilipemic Drugs

29. Diuretic Drugs

30. Fluids and Electrolytes

Part Five: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine System
Study Skills Tips

31. Pituitary Drugs

32. Thyroid and Antithyroid Drugs

33. Antidiabetic Drugs

34. Adrenal Drugs

35. Women's Health Drugs

36. Men's Health Drugs

Part Six: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System
Study Skills Tips

37. Antihistamines, Decongestants, Antitussives, and Expectorants

38. Respiratory Drugs

Part Seven: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal System and Nutrition
Study Skills Tips

39. Acid-Controlling Drugs

40. Antidiarrheal Drugs and Laxatives

41. Antiemetic and Antinausea Drugs

42. Nutritional Supplements

Part Eight: Anti-Infective and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Study Skills Tips

43. Antibiotics Part 1: Sulfonamides, Penicillins, Cephalosporins, Macrolides, and Tetracyclines

44. Antibiotics Part 2: Aminoglycosides, Fluoroquinalones, and Other Drugs

45. Antiviral Drugs

46. Antitubercular Drugs

47. Antifungal Drugs

48. Antimalarial, Antiprotozoal, and Anthelmintic Drugs

49. Anti-Inflammatory and Antigout Drugs

Part Nine: Immune and Biological Modifiers and Chemotherapeautic Drugs
Study Skills Tips

50. Immunosuppressant Drugs

51. Immunizing Drugs and Pandemic Preparedness

52. Antineoplastic Drugs Part 1: Cancer Overview and Cell Cycle - Specific Drugs

53. Antineoplastic Drugs Part 2: Cell Cycle - Nonspecific and Miscellaneous Drugs

54. Biological Response - Modifying Drugs and Antirheumatic Drugs

Part Ten: Miscellaneous Therapeutics: Hematological, Dermatalogical, Ophthalmic, and Otic Drugs
Study Skills Tips

55. Anemia Drugs

56. Dermatological Drugs

57. Ophthalmic Drugs

58. Otic Drugs

Appendix: Pharmaceutical Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Glossary Terms
Drug Index
General Index
Special Features

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 15, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Linda Lane Lilley

Linda Lilley, PhD, RN, is University Professor and Associate Professor Emeritus at the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA

BS

Beth Swart

Beth Swart, BScN, MES
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

JS

Julie S. Snyder

Julie S. Snyder, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC, teaches at the School of Nursing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Faculty, School of Nursing, Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA