Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, with Resource Kit CD-ROM (Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses) by Judith Hopfer Deglin, April Hazard Vallerand Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, with Resource Kit CD-ROM (Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses)
Book Review: A Nurses Best Friend
Summary: 5 Stars
While working as an office RN I am often asked by a patient questions about the "new" medication they are on. This book provides the answers. It's easy to read, each drug is broken into quick to find sections and it is very up-to-date. Don't practice nursing without this book!Book Review: Great Resource for Nurses
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best drug guides I have found. It contains everything you need and then some. It also has a handy cd-rom with tons of information on it. Book Review: Davis' Drug Guide
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is very helpful. It has lots of drugs in it, and a lot of valuable info for planning patient care and ensuring there are no medication reactions.Book Review: All I needed
Summary: 5 Stars
For the first time, I ordered my school texts on-line to save money... I am so pleased with the results. Shipment was fast, product was perfect and I saved money. Great for a "forever" student.Book Review: Superb drug guide for nurses
Summary: 5 Stars
You can't go wrong with this fantastic drug guide! It is listed under generic names but if you don't know the generic name you can look up in the index at the back of the book for the trade name. I had a nurse/lawyer professor for my first year care plans and she wanted it all. This book delivered it ALL: classification, pregnancy catagory, indications, mechanism of action, contraindications and precautions, adverse reactions and side effects, interactions, route and dosage, availability, nursing implications and even potential nursing diagnoses! Also implementation, patient/family teaching and evaluation. Wow! I've been very impressed. It came through for me so I didn't have to go out and buy another drug book which is saying something! Davis's Drug Guide has even more in the back of the book with many appendixes including: recent drug approvals, additional drugs, combination drugs and opthalmic meds all that include class, indications, adverse reactions and side effects, route and dosage and contraindications and warnings. Appendix E is about natural/herbal products which is as thorough as the drugs that make up the main part of this book. There are pictures of the intramuscular drug sites, formulas helpful for calculating doses, routine pediatric and adult immunizations, recommendations for the safe handling of hazardous drugs, schedules of controlled substances, food sources for specific nutrients (ie foods rich in K, Na, Ca, Fe, vit K, vit D, low Na, foods that acidify urine as well as foods that alkalizine urine), and insulin and insulin therapy. Also throughout the book there is plenty of red lettering amidst the black for high alert warnings where drug overdoses have occurred in the past. The organized, easily found references in this guide could save your client's lives. Just because a doctor orders it doesn't mean it is ok to give, as a nurse we have to look it up and know the safe dose and contraindications and more and this book has it all! Highly recommended! Good luck all future nurses!
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