FDA pregnancy safety categories are defined inside the book's cover. Highlights this essential content for easy retrieval. Nursing Care Plans Nursing Care Plans illustrate the application of nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions, to clients receiving drug therapy. Helps students bridge the gap between knowledge and practical clinical application. Now includes twice as many Special Considerations for Children as in the 20th edition.
New titles reflect a shift in terminology from the medical model.
Management of Drug Overdose boxes delineate concrete steps that nurses need to take to intervene for drug overdoses. Summarizes this critical, emergency information in a readily identifiable box. Reflects sensitivity to the increasingly community-based practice of nursing. Serious interactions are highlighted with color and bold type. These in-text tables, freshly designed for improved readability, alert students to common and serious drug interactions and use color and bold type to help them distinguish between the two.