Research Catalog

Title

Pharmacology in nursing practice / Gordon E. Johnson, Maureen Osis, Kathryn J. Hannah.

Author

Johnson, G. E. (Gordon E.)

Publication

Toronto : W.B. Saunders Canada, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Hannah, Kathryn J.
• Osis, Maureen.

Description

viii, 880 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Pharmacology in Nursing Practice, Fourth Edition, offers a truly comprehensive explanation of drugs and drug therapy geared to the needs of nursing students. Organized according to body system, the text presents drug families and individual drugs in terms of their mechanism of action, pharmacological effects, therapeutic uses, adverse effects and significant drug interactions.

Alternative Title

Pharmacology and the nursing process.

Subjects

• Nursing
• Nurses Instruction
• Drugs
• Pharmacologie
• Médicaments
• Pharmacology
• Soins infirmiers
• Drug Therapy

Genre/Form

Nurses Instruction.

Note

• Previous eds. published under title: Pharmacology and the nursing process

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A Statement on Drug Doses -- Abbreviations Used in This Book -- Commonly Used Equivalencies -- Unit 1. Pharmacotherapeutics and Nursing -- Unit 2. General Principles of Pharmacology -- Unit 3. Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases -- Unit 4. Drugs Used in the Treatment of Cancer -- Unit 5. Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology and Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs -- Unit 6. Cardiovascular Pharmacology -- Unit 7. Drugs and Water Balance -- Unit 8. Drugs and the Blood -- Unit 9. Psychopharmacology -- Unit 10. Drugs for the Treatment of Neurologic and Neuromuscular Disorders -- Unit 11. Drugs to Alleviate Pain -- Unit 12. Drugs and the Gastrointestinal Tract -- Unit 13. Endocrine Pharmacology -- Unit 14. Pharmacology of the Respiratory System.

ISBN

0920513239

LCCN

cn 98930222

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries