-- A new "mini-index" lists all drug classifications referenced to specific pages -- NCLEX-style questions added at the end of each chapter -- "Clinical Alerts" identify significant warnings or cautions related to a drug class or an individual drug -- "Building Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes help strengthen critical skills through patient scenarios -- "Delivering Home Health Care" boxes include drug administration guidelines or special considerations for home health care -- New chapters on Ethnic/Cultural ...
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-- A new "mini-index" lists all drug classifications referenced to specific pages -- NCLEX-style questions added at the end of each chapter -- "Clinical Alerts" identify significant warnings or cautions related to a drug class or an individual drug -- "Building Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes help strengthen critical skills through patient scenarios -- "Delivering Home Health Care" boxes include drug administration guidelines or special considerations for home health care -- New chapters on Ethnic/Cultural Considerations for Drug Therapy and Pharmacotherapeutics and Principles of Psychobiology -- Addition of drugs for Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis -- Integration of the nursing process with the pharmacologic content and overviews of anatomy and physiology -- Coverage of drug therapy through the life span, with updated material on neonate, pediatric, obstetric, and geriatric patients -- Redesigned and condensed drug tables provide drug action and use information; the nursing implications column is subdivided into assessment, intervention, and evaluation -- The nursing process tables/plans of care include assessment parameters, NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses using the latest terminology, nursing actions with rationales, and desired patient outcome/evaluation criteria -- Chapter outline, key term list, learning objectives, and multiple-choice questions in each chapter; review questions focus on critical thinking and synthesis of material; answers and rationales are supplied in the appendix -- Comprehensive index identifies generic drug names in second color and drug classifications in boldface type
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