Study Guide for Understanding Pharmacology
Essentials for Medication Safety
- 3rd Edition - March 6, 2023
- Imprint: Saunders
- Author: M. Linda Workman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 3 5 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 2 5 7 7 - 1
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Request a sales quoteThis study guide for Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition offers content review and a wide range of engaging activities and medication safety practice questions to help you master pharmacology concepts, learn drug safety, and practice dosage calculation.
- A variety of learning activities, including matching, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, identification, and multiple-choice questions, plus crossword puzzles, help reinforce learning.
- Medication Safety Practice sections emphasize important safety concepts related to medication administration.
- Practice quizzes, comprised of multiple-choice and select-all-that-apply questions for the NCLEX®, assess students’ knowledge of important chapter concepts to prepare them for the NCLEX-PN® and NCLEX-RN® Examinations.
- Reader-friendly writing style and organization increases understanding for entry-level students.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- To the Student
- Chapter 1: Drug Therapy: Roles, Regulations, Actions, and Responses
- Chapter 2: Safely Preparing and Giving Drugs
- Chapter 3: Mathematics Review and Introduction to Dosage Calculations
- Chapter 4: Medical Systems of Weights and Measures
- Chapter 5: Dosage Calculation of Intravenous Solutions and Drugs
- Chapter 6: Antiinfectives: Antibacterial Drugs
- Chapter 7: Antiinfectives: Antiviral Drugs
- Chapter 8: Antiinfectives: Antitubercular and Antifungal Drugs
- Chapter 9: Drugs for Pain Control, Migraines, and Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
- Chapter 10: General Antiinflammatory Drugs
- Chapter 11: Immunizations and Immunosuppressant Drugs
- Chapter 12: Drugs That Affect Urine Output
- Chapter 13: Drug Therapy for Hypertension
- Chapter 14: Drug Therapy for Heart Failure
- Chapter 15: Drug Therapy for Dysrhythmias
- Chapter 16: Drug Therapy for High Blood Lipids
- Chapter 17: Drugs That Affect Blood Clotting
- Chapter 18: Drug Therapy for Asthma and Other Respiratory Problems
- Chapter 19: Drug Therapy for Gastrointestinal Problems
- Chapter 20: Drug Therapy for Gastric Ulcers, Reflux, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Chapter 21: Drug Therapy for Diabetes
- Chapter 22: Drug Therapy for Thyroid and Adrenal Gland Problems
- Chapter 23: Drug Therapy for Seizures
- Chapter 24: Drug Therapy for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases
- Chapter 25: Drug Therapy for Psychiatric Problems
- Chapter 26: Drug Therapy for Insomnia
- Chapter 27: Drug Therapy for Eye Problems
- Chapter 28: Drug Therapy for Male Reproductive Problems
- Chapter 29: Drug Therapy for Female Reproductive Problems
- Edition: 3
- Published: March 6, 2023
- Imprint: Saunders
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323793513
- eBook ISBN: 9780323825771
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M. Linda Workman
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio