Pharmacotherapeutics

📖 The Scoop

-- A new "mini-index" lists all drug classifications referenced to specific pages
-- NCLEX-style questions added at the end of each chapter
-- "Clinical Alerts" identify significant warnings or cautions related to a drug class or an individual drug
-- "Building Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes help strengthen critical skills through patient scenarios
-- "Delivering Home Health Care" boxes include drug administration guidelines or special considerations for home health care
-- New chapters on Ethnic/Cultural Considerations for Drug Therapy and Pharmacotherapeutics and Principles of Psychobiology
-- Addition of drugs for Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis
-- Integration of the nursing process with the pharmacologic content and overviews of anatomy and physiology
-- Coverage of drug therapy through the life span, with updated material on neonate, pediatric, obstetric, and geriatric patients
-- Redesigned and condensed drug tables provide drug action and use information; the nursing implications column is subdivided into assessment, intervention, and evaluation
-- The nursing process tables/plans of care include assessment parameters, NANDA- approved nursing diagnoses using the latest terminology, nursing actions with rationales, and desired patient outcome/evaluation criteria
-- Chapter outline, key term list, learning objectives, and multiple-choice questions in each chapter; review questions focus on critical thinking and synthesis of material; answers and rationales are supplied in the appendix
-- Comprehensive index identifies generic drug names in second color and drug classifications in boldface type

Genre: Medical / Chemotherapy (fancy, right?)