Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook

An easy-to-use reference for thousands of medications. This latest update is based on the 2013th print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.

Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook 2013, promotes safe patient care by guiding you through clinical priorities and providing comprehensive coverage of IV drug administration. It also helps you prevent medication errors with Black Box Alerts, information on drug dosages for combination drugs, and key nursing considerations. Side effects are separated by their frequency.

- Combined nursing and pharmacology authorship ensures clinical accuracy of nearly 900 generic name drugs - encompassing over 4,000 trade name drugs
- Detailed information on each drug includes side effects and adverse reactions broken down by frequent, occasional, and rare, with percentages of occurrence
- Safe drug administration is promoted by clearly marked high-alert drugs, Tall Man spellings, and an appendix with sound-alike and look-alike drugs
- Monographs of frequently used herbs are included, plus additional herb information in the appendix, with potential herbal interactions indicated within drug entries for quick reference
- Information on combined drugs and fixed combinations covers drug dosage options for specific diseases
- Comprehensive foldout IV compatibility chart provides compatibility information for 65 intravenous drugs
- Extensively updated IV content includes IV compatibilities, expanded rates of infusion, reconstitutions, drip rates, test doses, flushing, and incompatibilities to help you find relevant information quickly
- Therapeutic and toxic blood level information highlights patient implications for drug administration
- Nursing implications organized in the functional nursing process framework include content on baseline assessment, intervention/evaluation, and patient and family teaching
- Lifespan and disorder-related dosage variations focus on the needs of specific populations, such as pediatric, geriatric, hepatic, and immune- or renal-compromised patients
- List of newly approved drugs in the First section of the reference, makes it easy to locate the latest drugs
- Entries for 27 newly FDA-approved drugs provide the most current drug information available