Authors: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Diane M. Labus (Editor), Sid Karpoff
ISBN-13: 9781582556963, ISBN-10: 1582556962
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
This easy-to-read outline review follows the unique two-column Straight A's format that lets students choose how they study for NCLEX® and course exams. The interior column outlines key facts for in-depth review; the exterior column lists only the most crucial points for quickest review. Other features include pretest questions at the beginning of each chapter; end-of-chapter NCLEX®-style questions; lists of top items to study before a test; Time-Out for Teaching patient-teaching points; Go with the Flow algorithms; and alerts highlighted in a second color.
A bound-in CD-ROM contains hundreds of NCLEX®-style questions—including alternate-format questions—with answers and rationales.
Advisory board | ||
Contributors and consultants | ||
How to use this book | ||
Foreword | ||
1 | Fundamentals of nursing pharmacology | 1 |
2 | Drugs and the autonomic nervous system | 19 |
3 | Drugs and the central nervous system | 36 |
4 | Drugs and pain | 54 |
5 | Drugs and mood alteration | 71 |
6 | Drugs and the musculoskeletal system | 93 |
7 | Drugs and the respiratory system | 103 |
8 | Drugs and the cardiovascular system | 118 |
9 | Drugs and the renal system | 153 |
10 | Drugs and the hematologic system | 165 |
11 | Drugs and the endocrine system | 183 |
12 | Drugs and the immune system | 203 |
13 | Drugs and cancer | 234 |
14 | Drugs and the gastrointestinal system | 247 |
15 | Drugs and the reproductive system | 266 |
16 | Drugs and the integumentary system | 286 |
17 | Drugs and the sensory system | 294 |
18 | Nutritional agents and the body | 306 |
Herbal drugs | 322 | |
Commonly abused substances | 324 | |
Glossary | 326 | |
Selected references | 333 | |
Index | 334 |