Pharmacology and the Nursing Process by Linda Lane Lilley, Scott Harrington, Julie S. Snyder

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This market-leading text is known for presenting challenging content in a clear and consistent format that engages students. With an eye-catching design, full-color illustrations, and helpful, practical boxed features that highlight need-to-know information, the new edition of this bestseller continues its tradition of making pharmacology easy to learn and understand.

• A companion CD includes resources such as 450 NCLEX™ examination-style review questions, 26 state-of-the-art animations, and 9 IV therapy and 5 medication errors checklists.
• Study Skills Tips include practical advice on time management, note taking, study techniques, and test taking.
• Drug profiles highlight the pharmacokinetics and unique variations of individual drugs.
• Case studies and critical thinking activities test students' knowledge and understanding.
• Medication Errors: Preventing and Responding chapter discusses specific nursing measures to prevent medication errors, possible consequences of medication errors to nurses, responses to errors, reporting and learning from mistakes, and other ethical issues.
• Patient teaching tips include key points to convey to patients, their families, and caregivers.
• Points to Remember boxes summarize major concepts in a bulleted format.
• NCLEX™ exam-style review questions provide a pharmacology review and add a new emphasis on prioritization.
• e-Learning activities boxes list related content and exercises on the companion CD and Evolve website.
• Key drugs are highlighted with an icon for quick identification.
• Photo Atlas of Medication Administration depicts steps in drug administration for various routes.
• Tear-out IVincompatibility chart provides a convenient portable reference.
• Life Span Considerations boxes highlight important age-related implications for pediatric and elderly patients.

• A new focus on prioritization identifies key nursing information and helps in preparation for the NCLEX™ examination.
• Preventing Medication Errors boxes reinforce concepts introduced in the medication errors chapter and relate them to specific common errors that occur in clinical practice.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize current research relevant to safe and effective drug therapy.
• Laboratory Values Related to Drug Therapy boxes highlight the therapeutic levels of various drugs.
• Expanded bioterrorism content now includes chemical agents such as ricin.
• Increased focus on drug class provides a "big picture" knowledge of how various drugs work in the body.
• Expanded cultural content covers today's increasingly diverse patient population.
• Pharmacokinetic Bridge to the Nursing Process sections apply key pharmacokinetics information to nursing practice.

Laurel A. Eisenhauer

This book presents basic pharmacology for nursing students. Its unique feature is the extensive and predominant use of pedagogical approaches. The purpose is to provide the most up-to-date clinically relevant information on pharmacology and nursing in an appealing, understandable, and practical format. The content covers basic nursing and pharmacology information, but is limited in the depth of information or in explaining the why and the how of the pharmacology. Undergraduate nursing students, especially those at the associate degree level or those who can benefit from enhancing study skills, would be the primary audience. It probably also would be helpful to those for whom English is a second language because of the focus on pronunciation of glossary words and the useful orientation to content to be covered in a chapter or section. Pedagogical features include study skills chapters; learning objectives, outlines, and glossaries for each chapter; extensive use of multicolor diagrams; boxes on cultural implications, legal-ethical principles, and take-home points; critical thinking activities; patient teaching; and research abstracts. The extensive and effective use of color in the overall design is very effective; color photos and diagrams are especially noteworthy and contribute to visual learning for the student. This textbook should be very useful for students who need guidance and greater structure in learning and applying study skills in learning pharmacology. The extensive use of color on the cover and throughout the book makes the book very attractive and would appeal to most learners. Some of the pedagogical features (e.g., study skills briefs at the beginning of sections)vary in the approaches used and could confuse the student. The accompanying manual for students also uses different steps in study skills and thus could be either a source of confusion or a valuable resource, depending on the particular student.

Rosemarie Brager

This textbook offers nursing students a comprehensive overview of pharmacology and related nursing considerations. It is easy-to-read and has good aesthetic features. As pharmacology considerations and treatments change daily in the healthcare environment, it is almost impossible to keep pace with a text. This text does a fine job of trying to keep up with new drugs and not losing site of the classic ones. This book would be beneficial to nursing students in all levels (associate, diploma, BSN). All physiologic body systems are covered and serve as the model of review. A brief, although accurate and necessary, review of pathophysiology is given for each chapter. Many color tables, which are easy to read, are included. A special feature which is well-received is the inclusion of many "profiles." Each category of drug is profiled in a color-background box. This visual strategy is helpful to the student studying for exams. Although up-to-date information is usually covered (new generations of oral antidiabetic medications), the book is not perfect (low-molecular weight heparin is not covered). Also, it would have been helpful if all medications were described in generic and brand name terms. I am not very familiar with many pharmacology textbooks, although I teach nursing students clinically and in the classroom about acute care. I cannot think that there are too many other texts that offer the nursing student a better look at pharmacology. I recommend this book.

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Reviewer:Rosemarie M. Brager, PhD (Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)
Description:This textbook offers nursing students a comprehensive overview of pharmacology and related nursing considerations. It is easy-to-read and has good aesthetic features.
Purpose:As pharmacology considerations and treatments change daily in the healthcare environment, it is almost impossible to keep pace with a text. This text does a fine job of trying to keep up with new drugs and not losing site of the classic ones.
Audience:This book would be beneficial to nursing students in all levels (associate, diploma, BSN) .
Features:All physiologic body systems are covered and serve as the model of review. A brief, although accurate and necessary, review of pathophysiology is given for each chapter. Many color tables, which are easy to read, are included. A special feature which is well-received is the inclusion of many "profiles." Each category of drug is profiled in a color-background box. This visual strategy is helpful to the student studying for exams. Although up-to-date information is usually covered (new generations of oral antidiabetic medications) , the book is not perfect (low-molecular weight heparin is not covered) . Also, it would have been helpful if all medications were described in generic and brand name terms.
Assessment:I am not very familiar with many pharmacology textbooks, although I teach nursing students clinically and in the classroom about acute care. I cannot think that there are too many other texts that offer the nursing student a better look at pharmacology. I recommend this book.

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3 Stars from Doody

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