Drugs 455 455. Springhouse, PA, Springhouse Corp., 1999. NLM Call no. 36 advisors and clinical consultants. Drug Handbook focuses precisely on what nurses need to know about drugs.
Detailed pharmacology is omitted in favor of emphasizing clinical aspects.
Drug entries are arranged by therapeutic class and include information on trade names, how supplied, action, indications and dosage, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on diagnostic tests, contraindications, nursing considerations, and patient teaching. An expanded Interactions section and several new appendices have been added, including one listing imprint codes for identifying pills. A software diskette for 2000 is now called NDHPlus . For practicing nurses, Nursing2000 Drug Handbook is well-organized, informative, and easy to use. Recommended for hospital and academic libraries.