Product Description: Effectively merge basic science and clinical skills with Elsevier's Integrated Review Pharmacology, by Mark Kester, PhD, Kelly Dowhower Karpa, PhD, RPh, and Kent E. Vrana, PhD. This concise, high-yield title in the popular Integrated Series focuses on the core knowledge in pharmacology while linking that information to related concepts from other basic science disciplines...read more

Product Description: Medicine administration is a fundamental aspect of the nursing role, carrying with it great risk, and requiring a high level of skill and background knowledge. This student friendly text will take you through the basic concepts of medicines management, to the essential skills needed in practice...read more

Product Description: Proper management of high-alert medications is more crucial than ever. This new book provides an in-depth, easy-to-understand analysis of how an organization can reduce the likelihood of patient harm associated with anticoagulants, insulin, and other high-risk drugs...read more

Product Description: Gain the knowledge and skills you need to give medication with this new easy-to-read textbook. Thorough and complete, this text covers all of the basic principles and techniques of medication administration. It also provides an overview of common drugs, their effects and side effects, and key safety issues that include medication interactions, common errors, over-the-counter medications, and medication use in older adults...read more

An understanding of medicines and their effects on patients remains a crucial area of nursing knowledge. This book not only provides information on the actions of drugs on the body but also gives guidance on the practical aspects of medicines management in both hospital and community.

Product Description: Each title in the new Integrated series focuses on the core knowledge in a specific basic science discipline, while linking that information to related concepts from other disciplines. Case-based questions at the end of each chapter enable you to gauge your mastery of the material, and a color-coded format allows you to quickly find the specific guidance you need...read more

Improve your patient’s health through a fresh view of their behaviorsPatients who use over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicine often do not take the drugs as intended, sometimes to the detriment to their health and well-being. These widespread problems cause health professionals to agonize over how to try to make sure patients comply with medication instructions. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities tackles this tough issue by exploring in detail the range of noncompliance behavior, the negative impacts the behavior has on patients as well as society at large, and practical ways to influence people to take their medicine for optimum health. Respected pharmacist and author Jack Fincham and other noted experts provide insights, surprising data, and effective solutions to a challenge nearly all health professionals encounter.Patients often use drugs they get from a multitude of sources, making the capability of monitoring drug use difficult. Other problems can also interfere with a patient’s health, such as a patient borrowing drugs from family or friends—or even not taking them at all simply because he or she are unable to pay for them. Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities goes beyond the standard pat explanations and mostly ineffective quick solutions usually offered for the complicated noncompliance issue. Leading authorities describe the range of reasons for a patient’s behavior and provide practical strategies that strike at the root of the problem. Helpful tables, figures, and extensive references are also included.Topics in Patient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities include: the prevalence of noncompliance costs of noncompliance drug therapies that lead to noncompliance measuring compliance models to evaluate patient compliance evaluation methods ethical considerations health professionals’ roles in compliance disease state management future considerations much morePatient Compliance with Medication: Issues and Opportunities is insightful, crucial information for health professionals, educators, and students.

Product Description: Advanced Medication Administration Skills provides medical personnel with the advanced knowledge and skills needed to perform medication administration safely and effectively under the clinical direction of the health care provider and supportive clinicians...read more

This Fourth Edition text introduces dimensional analysis as the method for calculating all drug dosages. The use of a single, consistent method for dosage calculations helps eliminate confusion, reduce errors, and build confidence. Chapters include numerous examples, practice problems, and self-quizzes to enable students to monitor their progress. Actual drug labels are used to simulate clinical situations and provide students with relevant practice. This proven text helps students build confidence as they learn the important skill of dosage calculations. Supplements Instructor's Manual 0-7668-0200-0 - 32 pages

Product Description: Addressing the growing problem of medication errors in practice, this groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM provides students with the "real-world" experience they need to succeed. Safe Meds provides students with a hands-on learning environment that exposes them to medication administration challenges, dosage and solution problems, and issues of safe practice...read more

This best-selling text attempts in this sixth edition to asist students with basic mathematics, calculation of dosages, drug administration, and drug tupes and their actions.

Product Description: For introductory courses in the study of Health Professions, and technical training programs focused on health care.This reference book provides basic background on the desired effects and side effects of different kinds of medication, and is written for the non-licensed caregiver--with little or no nursing/medical training--working primarily in an assisted living environment...read more