Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs: Edition 9
Jun 2013 · Elsevier Health Sciences
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This ninth edition of Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs e-book continues to provide reliable, accurate drug information for nursing and midwifery students and practitioners. All content in this must have nursing drug handbook, is tailored for nurses and midwives in Australia and New Zealand.User-friendly and fully up-to-date, this indispensible nursing e-book delivers safe drug administration information regarding form, action, use, dose, adverse effects and interactions incompliance with current pharmaceutical guidelines by the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA).Each therapeutic drug class features a detailed description, followed by an A-Z of drugs withinthat class.Important Nursing points and cautions throughout this edition highlight best practice in drug administration. Patient teaching and advice has been included to emphasise an essential part ofcare within a multidisciplinary team.This e-book edition also features icons that indicate drug cautions during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and another that indicates drug-specific restrictions in sport.A bestselling Elsevier textbook, Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs has been the premier drug guide for nurses and midwives since 1983. Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs 9th edition will also be available for separate purchase as an app (iOS and android) and provides an easy reference, searchable version of the text in mobile format for students and practitioners to carry with them during clinical practice.Also, available for separate purchase to be used alongside the Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs app will be the Tiziani Drug Calculations app. When both apps are purchased the user will be able to share function, content and data between the two applications. This link will provide cross reference from the text to case studies and drug calculation MCQ's, placing the pharmacology in a clinical context. Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs 9e app and the Tiziani Drug Calculations app will be available for purchase in December 2013. - Drugs listed by therapeutic class and by body system - Both trade names and generic drug names provided - Each drug entry listed by available forms, action, use, dosage, adverse effects, interactions with other drugs - Nursing points and cautions and Patient teaching and advice ensure quality patient care - New focus on Patient teaching and advice - All existing drugs reviewed and updated - All new entries checked to ensure form, action, dose, usage, adverse effects, contraindication and precautions comply with current pharmaceutical guidelines. - Cautions for drugs used during pregnancy and breastfeeding are highlighted with an icon - Cautions for Sports related drugs are also highlighted with an icon
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3.6
7 reviews
Judie Rutter
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February 22, 2018
I'm disappointed I clicked on version 10 as I'd taken a look at the sample and liked it but I ended up with version 9. Is there any way that it can be switched over I'm happy to pay the difference
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Lami3Chop (Lami3Chop)
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October 5, 2017
Where is the app? I have been searching everywhere
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Mayank Gehlot
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January 22, 2017
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About the author
Adriana Tiziani is Course Director, Postgraduate Studies in Wound Care, School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, VIC.
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