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Understanding Pharmacology
Essentials for Medication Safety
- 3rd Edition - February 9, 2023
- Authors: M. Linda Workman, Linda A. LaCharity
- Language: English
- Other ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 2 9 7 2 - 4
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 3 5 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 2 5 7 4 - 0
Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition uses a unique combination of simplified language, easy-to-follow headers, and engaging boxes and i… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUnderstanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety, 3rd Edition uses a unique combination of simplified language, easy-to-follow headers, and engaging boxes and icons — such as Memory Joggers, Critical Points for Safety, Do Not Confuse, and Drug Alerts — to help you really understand how drugs work, instead of simply memorizing drug information. Updated drug tables with nursing implications ensure you are equipped with all the tools and information you need to safely prepare and administer drugs. Online case studies help you prepare for the Next Generation NCLEX-PN® and NCLEX-RN®.
- Sections on "Priority Actions to Take Before," "Priority Actions to Take After," and "Teaching Priorities for Patients" emphasize important aspects of drug administration, monitoring, follow-up, and patient teaching.
- Life span considerations outline nursing implications for drugs used in children, older adults, and pregnant women.
- Math and dosage calculations review reinforces medication preparation safety.
- Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! sections at the end of each chapter summarize key points and provide review questions that reinforce important concepts learned in the chapter.
- An array of marginal cartoon icons in Common Side Effects boxes help visual learners remember essential drug side effects.
- Drug Alert and Do Not Confuse boxes highlight areas of common drug/dosage errors.
- Memory Jogger boxes help you retain important drug information.
- Try This! boxes in the math chapter allow you to practice dosage calculation concepts.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Disclaimer
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the authors
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Special features
- Animations and Videos (on Evolve)
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Unit I. General Aspects of Pharmacology
- 1. Drug therapy: Roles, regulations, actions, and responses
- Introduction to drug therapy
- How drugs affect the body: Pharmacodynamics
- How the body affects and changes drugs (pharmacokinetics)
- Life span considerations
- Review Questions
- 2. Safely preparing and giving drugs
- Overview
- Principles of administering drugs
- Review Questions
- Unit II. Mathematics for Pharmacology and Dosage Calculation
- 3. Mathematics review and introduction to dosage calculations
- Why nurses need mathematics
- Math check
- Getting started
- Whole numbers versus a part of a number
- Solving dosage and calculation problems
- Using proportions to solve for X
- Review Questions
- Answers to math check
- Answers to try this!
- 4. Medical systems of weights and measures
- Overview
- Math check
- Measuring systems for temperature: Fahrenheit and Celsius
- Household system for liquid and dry measurements
- Metric system
- Switching between household and metric systems
- Milliequivalent measures
- Unit measures
- Two-step drug dosage calculations
- Dimensional analysis
- Review Questions
- Answers to math check
- Answers to try this!
- 5. Dosage calculation of intravenous solutions and drugs
- Overview
- Review Questions
- Answers to try this!
- Unit III. Pharmacology for Multisystem Application
- 6. Antiinfectives: Antibacterial drugs
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of bacterial infection
- Overview of antibacterial therapy
- Types of antibacterial drugs
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 7. Antiinfectives: Antiviral drugs
- Overview
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of common nonretroviruses
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of retroviral infection
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 8. Antiinfectives: Antitubercular and antifungal drugs
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of tuberculosis
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of fungal infections
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 9. Drugs for pain control, migraines, and skeletal muscle spasms
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for general pain
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for migraine headache
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of muscle spasm
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 10. General antiinflammatory drugs
- Related physiology and pathophysiology of inflammation
- Therapy with general antiinflammatory drugs
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 11. Immunizations and immunosuppressant drugs
- Overview of the immune system and immunity
- Related physiology and pathophysiology of autoimmune disorders
- Related physiology and pathophysiology of transplantation
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit IV. Drug Therapy for Problems of the Circulatory and Cardiac Systems
- 12. Drugs that affect urine output
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- Diuretics
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for overactive bladder
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 13. Drug therapy for hypertension
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- General issues for antihypertensive therapy
- Types of antihypertensive drugs
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 14. Drug therapy for heart failure
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- Treatment for heart failure
- General issues in heart failure therapy
- Types of drugs used to treat heart failure
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 15. Drug therapy for dysrhythmias
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- General issues related to antidysrhythmic therapy
- Types of drugs to treat dysrhythmias
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 16. Drug therapy for high blood lipids
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- General issues for lipid-lowering drugs
- Types of lipid-lowering drugs
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 17. Drugs that affect blood clotting
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for excessive or inappropriate blood clotting
- Types of drugs used to prevent excessive or inappropriate clotting
- Drugs that improve blood clotting
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit V. Drug Therapy for Respiratory System Problems
- 18. Drug therapy for asthma and other respiratory problems
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of common respiratory disorders
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit VI. Drug Therapy for Gastrointestinal System Problems
- 19. Drug therapy for gastrointestinal problems
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for nausea and vomiting
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for constipation
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for diarrhea
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 20. Drug therapy for gastric ulcers, reflux, and inflammatory bowel disease
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- General issues for drugs for PUD, GERD, and IBD
- Types of drugs for PUD and GERD
- Drugs for inflammatory bowel disease
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit VII. Drug Therapy for Endocrine Problems
- 21. Drug therapy for diabetes
- Related physiology and pathophysiology of endocrine pancreatic function
- Drug therapy for diabetes
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 22. Drug therapy for thyroid and adrenal gland problems
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of thyroid function
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of adrenal gland function
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit VIII. Drug Therapy for Nervous System Problems
- 23. Drug therapy for seizures
- Related physiology and pathophysiology of seizures
- Types of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 24. Drug therapy for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
- Overview
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 25. Drug therapy for psychiatric problems
- Overview
- General issues related to drug therapy for psychiatric problems
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of depression
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of anxiety
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of psychosis
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 26. Drug therapy for insomnia
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology of insomnia
- Types of drugs for insomnia
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 27. Drug therapy for eye problems
- Overview
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology
- General issues for local eye drug therapy
- Types of drugs for glaucoma
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Unit IX. Drug Therapy for Problems of the Reproductive System
- 28. Drug therapy for male reproductive problems
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for male hormone replacement therapy
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for erectile dysfunction
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- 29. Drug therapy for female reproductive problems
- Review of related physiology for female hormone function
- Review of related physiology and pathophysiology for osteoporosis
- Review Questions
- Clinical judgment
- Appendix A: Answers to in text review questions
- Bibliography
- Index
- No. of pages: 608
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: February 9, 2023
- Imprint: Saunders
- Other ISBN: 9780323829724
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323793506
- eBook ISBN: 9780323825740
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M. Linda Workman
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OhioLL
Linda A. LaCharity
Affiliations and expertise
Formerly, Accelerated Program Director and Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio