Choose the drug handbook trusted by nurses for over 35 years! Mosby’s 2024 Nursing Drug Reference makes it easy to find the most vital information on the drugs you administer most frequently. More than 5,000 drugs are profiled – including more than 25 new entries for drugs recently approved by the FDA. And no other drug guide places a higher emphasis on patient safety, with Black Box Warnings for dangerous adverse reactions, High Alerts for drugs with the greatest risk, and a focus on both common and life-threatening side effects. From nursing pharmacology expert Linda Skidmore-Roth, this perennial bestseller proves there is a difference in drug guides.

• More than 5,000 generic and trade-name drugs are profiled, covering almost every drug you will administer in practice or in clinicals.
• Alphabetical organization by generic name provides quick and easy access to specific drugs, with both trade and generic names listed in the index.
• Bolded coverage of IV drug administration highlights dosage and IV administration instructions, including safety considerations and Y-site, syringe, and additive compatibilities.
• Nursing Process steps are used as the framework for organizing all nursing care information.
• Complete pharmacokinetic information is summarized in a table and includes the mechanism and absorption of the drug as well as its action, duration, and excretion.
• Side effects information is organizedby body system and identified as common or life threatening, showing signs to watch for during assessments.
• High Alert headers highlight drugs that pose the greatest risk if administered improperly.
• Black Box Warnings provide alerts to FDA warnings of dangerous or life-threatening drug reactions.
  • Overview of drug categories explains the safe administration of common classes of drugs, as well as their common side effects and interactions.
  • Flexible, water-resistant cover provides durability in the clinical setting.
  • NEW! Drug monographs for more than 25 newly released, FDA-approved medications equip you with the latest drug information including generic names, trade names, pronunciations, do-not-confuse drugs, action, uses, contraindications, precautions, dosages and routes, side effects, pharmacokinetics, interactions (including drug/herb, drug/food and drug/lab test), nursing considerations, treatment of overdose, patient/family teaching, and more.
  • NEW! Several online-only drug monographs are added to the Evolve website, creating an overall total of more than 100 Evolve-only drug monographs for lesser-used medications.

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Nurses must deliver up-to-date, clinically effective, evidence-based care across a range of settings and develop nursing services to meet changing demands. The revised and expanded Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Nursing 3rd edition is tailored to provide the essential knowledge nurses need; at their fingertips when they need it.

This handbook will guide the reader systematically through the care of patients with a wide range of cardiac problems. Each chapter contains the up to date evidence-based guidelines for cardiac conditions and treatments. It now includes new topics such as stroke, genetics, computed tomography coronary angiogram. Valvular heart disease has been expanded, as well as the chapter on congenital heart disease and inherited cardiac conditions. Providing key summaries of common problems and essential issues, it will provide both an invaluable reference for cardiac nurses, as well as a precise, targeted guide for nurses from other specialties caring for patients with cardiac problems.

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This nursing notebook is perfect to use For classes or clinical for taking down notes, homework assignments, your own thoughts and your special stories.A beautifully made Journal gift for any nurse!

Its a simple, easy-to-use design that makes it just right to keep your thoughts organized, writing down notes or inspiration, use it as a daily planner or a journal. It can also be used to write down medical plans, meeting information, schedules, or anything else a nurse would need — all in one place!

◆Premium matte cover design

◆Printed on high quality

◆Perfectly sized at 6″ x 9″

◆Unique Design 120 pages

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All UK nurses are required to become proficient in medicines management before registration. Safe administration of medicines is an essential skill for every nurse, and provides the foundation for nurse prescribing as a future area of practice. Now comprehensively updated and restructured in line with latest NMC Educational Standards for its Second Edition, this evidence-based resource: provides quick access to the knowledge you need to make clinical decisions and to safely deliver medication in partnership with patients. It is written and illustrated to be shared with patients when explaining and clarifying the nature of medications. It addresses the principles of pharmacology and the practical administration of medicines to adults, and it covers the most common drugs as examples of drugs in their classes, complementing the BNF. This new edition of Practical Medicines Management includes additional coverage of mental health, communicating with patients and achieving adherence, routes of administration, and responding to emergencies including sepsis. It is fully referenced to enable further learning. This resource is indispensable for the nursing student and for the practicing nurse in hospital and community, including nursing associates. Clinical educators, practice assessors and supervisors will also find this resource reinforces key messages about safe and confident practice.

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Help students make the most of what they’ve learned inBrunner & Suddarths Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing,15th Edition, with this easy-to-use study companion. Updated to reflect the latest textbook material, thisStudy Guideprovides everything students need to assess their understanding and practice applying their knowledge, preparing them for success in your class, on the NCLEX(R)exam, and in nursing practice.

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New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on adult nursing now fully revised for a new generation of students!

Led by the renowned editor, Ian Peate OBE FRCN, this well-established volume has been fully updated by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the needs of today’s undergraduate nursing student. Retaining the popular format – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups – this comprehensive volume is richly illustrated throughout and contains a wide range of helpful learning features to help the reader navigate the demands of the latest NMC educational requirements. Evidenced-based throughout, and with a range of helpful online tools and learning activities, additional features include ‘Real-life’ Case Studies to helpreaderscontextualise and apply new information, relevant pathophysiology to explain disease processes, enhanced discussion of pharmacology and medicines management to assist with ‘prescribing readiness’, and learning features which include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?

Fully reflective of the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses, this volume will be suitable for all undergraduate nursing students, the Trainee Nursing Associate, and anyone returning to practice.

• New edition of the UK’s most comprehensive textbook on Adult Nursing!

• Retains the popular ‘three-part’ structure to ensure comprehensive coverage of the subject area – Common Disorders, Core Nursing Issues and Specific Patient Groups
  • Illustrative A&P and pathophysiology help explain key diseases and disorders
  • ‘Real-life’ Case Studies helpcontextualise and apply new information
  • Explains relevant tests and investigations and, when needed, the role of the nurse in the context of each of them
  • Helpful learning features include Key Nursing Issues and Reflection and Learning – What Next?
    • Encourages readers to critically examine issues that are related to care provision
    • Useful icons throughout the text directs readers to additional online material
    • Glossary contains over 300 entries to explain new terminology and concepts
    • Appendices include notes on Système International (SI) units and reference ranges for common biochemical and haematological values
    • Perfect for second and third-year undergraduate nursing students, senior Trainee Nursing Associates, those ‘returning to practice’ or needing to review practice and prepare for revalidation
    • Edited by the world-renowned Ian Peate – editor of the British Journal of Nursing – who brings together a new line up of contributors from across the UK and Australia
    • Reflects contemporary issues such as the complexity of acute admissions and the increasing importance of the multidisciplinary approach to patient care
    • Reflects the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses and the NMC 2018 Code
    • Helps prepare students for ‘prescribing readiness’, with basic principles of pharmacology, evidence-based person-centred approaches to medicines management and an understanding of the regulatory, professional legal and ethical frameworks
    • Recognises the introduction of the Nursing Associate role in England

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Ideal for quick reference in any ward or community environment, this pocket-sized (120x80mm), spiral-bound book in the popular Nursing & Health Survival guide series puts all the crucial information on wound care at your fingertips.

It includes all you need to know on:

• Wound assessment
• Wound conditions
• Treatment and dressing choice
• Pressure ulcers and prevention
• Healing factors and risk assessment

And much more…

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Are you studying to become a nurse? Are you planning to take the NCLEX exam? Are you finding it difficult to remember all of the facts and specific medical information required of you for this position?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you.

Inside you will find:•Information on the proven memory aid of mnemonics, including how they work so that you can even make up your own.

✓ Hundreds of medical mnemonics cover many different topics that will help you remember the facts for exams and your daily work as a nurse.

✓ Information on the NCLEX exam, including what to expect and how to study for this important exam.

✓ 100 practice questions and answers in the same format that you will find on the NCLEX exam to know exactly what to expect.

•Do you know off the top of your head when you should be concerned about a patient’s mole?

If you remember the mnemonic ABCDE, then it will be easy! •A = Asymmetry• B = Border irregular• C = Color irregular• D = Diameter usually greater than 0.5 cm• E = Elevation irregularWhat if you are looking at an x-ray and notice something weird that shouldn’t be there.

If you see HOLES in the chest, that is WEIRD. What are the possible differentials?•W = Wegner’s syndrome•E = Embolic (pulmonary, septic)•I = Infection (anaerobes, pneumocystis, TB)•R = Rheumatoid (Necrobiotic nodules)•D = Developmental cysts (sequestration)•H = Histiocytosis•O = Oncological•L = Lymphangeioleiomyomatosis•E = Environmental/ occupational•S = Sarcoid.

Like in these examples, mnemonics are a proven way to help you recall specific information, including detailed information such as differentials, symptoms, diagnostics, and even steps in a procedure. Throughout this book, you will find hundreds of mnemonics, many of which have been used for years by health care professionals to help them recall vital information. Once you see how the mnemonics work, you can pick and choose the ones that work for you, or you can even use the information in this book to create your own mnemonics that are easy for you to remember.

Mnemonics can also come in handy on the NCLEX. Here is a question that is typical for this exam:

A patient comes to the clinic complaining of severe gastrointestinal distress. Which abdominal physical assessment step does the nurse do first?

a.Inspection b.Palpation c.Percussion d.Auscultation.

If you remember your mnemonic tricks, then this question will be easy. Remember the mnemonic “I Am a People Person,” and you will instantly know that the answer is “A, inspection.”

•I = Inspection•A = Auscultation•P = Percussion•P = Palpation.

Please don’t wait until you are studying for exams, pick up this book, and use it throughout your studies so that the mnemonics used will become second nature to you and propel you towards your nursing career.

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Clinical decision-making is a vital part of professional nursing care and it is essential that as a student nurse you develop sound judgement and decision-making skills in order to deal confidently with the challenges you will encounter as a registered nurse. By using this book, you will be able to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively. The book links theory to realistic student experiences and clinical scenarios to show you how to use these skills in practice.

Key features:

·        Fully mapped to the new NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses (2018)

·        Contains clinical scenarios demonstrating decision making in practice

·        Helps build confidence in your judgement and decision making skills through interactive activities.

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To deliver safe and effective patient care student nurses need to find, critique, and use evidence in every day nursing decisions and academic work, Consequently they need a new textbook that goes further than simply explaining research methods. Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Skills has been developed as a one stop shop for research theory and evidence based practice skills for all aspects of the pre-registration nursing course – in both the classroom and on clinical placement.

Taking a logical approach, the authors introduce the role of evidence based practice in nursing before explaining how research is produced and how students can find, read and critique it in order to make informed care decisions. Theory is applied to both academic and clinical work so readers can easily see how to weigh up the evidence before applying it to a nursing decision. Useful for the entire undergraduate course, the content is mapped against the skills required of registered nurses and includes practical advice for completing final year academic assignments.

Written in an easy to read, student friendly manner the authors have brought together trustworthy and reliable advice in a way that’s easy to dip into any time you need it- from writing an assignment, devising a nursing plan, documenting your placement learning outcomes, or finding advice on disseminating evidence for practice. This book has been truly designed to help student nurses become evidence based practitioners and to develop their nursing practice.

Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Nursing Evidence -Based Practice Skills features:

DT Practical tools such as checklists and notes to help students to really put the theory into practice
DT Web links to authoritative sources of research will quickly direct students to the best evidence
DT Hyperlinked bibliographies mean readers can easily access the referenced articles in the book
DT Our interactive glossary will help newcomers to the subject to understand the language of research

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