The most up-to-date practical and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z.

DESCRIPTION
The Jones & Bartlett Learning 2020 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date practical and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

The 2020 Nurse is Drug Handbook

Key Features:

- Index of all generic trade and alternate drug names
- Chemical and therapeutic classes FDA pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule
- Indications and dosages as well as route onset peak and duration information
- Incompatibilities and contraindications
- Interactions with drugs food and activities
- Adverse reactions
- Nursing considerations including key teaching points for patients
- Mechanism-of-action illustrations
- Warnings and precautions
- Updated antineoplastic drug therapy appendix
- Addition of bolded Life-Threatening Adverse Reactions (ADRs)

NEW TO THIS EDITION
New drugs added to the 2020 Nurse's Drug Handbook include: PEGlated-auci jivi baloxavir marboxil baricitinib inactivated-zhzo didanosine doravirine Eravacycline erenumab-aooe fremanezumab-vfrm frovatriptan galcanezumab-gnlm ganiciclovir ibalizumab-uiyk lofexidine lubiprostone omadacycline plazomicin revefenacin rifamycin saquinavir sarecycline semaglutide sodium zirconium cyclosilicate sufentanil tildrakizumab-asmn