In its updated Fourth Edition, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects.

Each chapter opens with learning objectives and ends with NCLEX®-style and other questions. Illustrations, tables, side bars, and boxes summarize concepts and focus attention on critical thinking, patient safety, evidence-based practice, lifespan issues, patient teaching, and case study-based critical thinking exercises.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a video on medication administration, NCLEX®-style questions, and additional learning tools.

Contents

1. Introduction to Nursing Pharmacology
2. Chemotherapeutic Agents
3. Drugs Acting on the Immune System
4. Drugs Acting on the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
5. Drugs Acting on the Autonimic Nervous System
6. Drugs Acting on the Endocrine System
7. Drugs Acting on the Cardiovascular System
8. Drugs Acting on the Renal System
9. Drugs Acting on the Respiratory System
10. Drugs Acting on the Gastrointestinal System

Glossary
Answer Key
Appendices
Index

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