2023 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 straightforward style with approachable terminology, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.
The 2023 Nurse's Drug Handbook includes:
* 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 appendices, including Uncommon Drugs
* Bolded life-threatening Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)
New drugs added to the 2023 Nurse's Drug Handbook include: Aducanumab-avwa, Atogepant, Baricitini, Cabotegravi, Dasiglucagon, Difelikefalin, Evinacumab-dgnb, Finerenone, Ibrexafungerp, Inclisiran, Molnupiravir, Nirmatrelvir, Ponesimod, Tezepelumab-ekko, Tralokinumab-ldrm, Vericiguat.
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