Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!

Understanding pharmacological principles is a fundamental aspect of nursing practice. Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! highlights key pharmacology concepts while enhancing your knowledge, skills, and clinical judgment. It breaks down information into easy-to-understand key concepts, provides important care reminders, offers reassurance, and teaches in a way that no other resource can. Throughout the book, several elements test your knowledge and reinforce these concepts. 

• NEW! FDA Boxed Warnings highlight life-threatening concerns.
• NEW! Fast Facts boxes feature key information about a specific drug or class of drugs that the nurse should remember.
• NEW! Ages and Stages boxes emphasize how a drug or drug class may affect patients of different ages.
• Meds Matter elements detail actions, indications, and nursing considerations for common drugs.
• Picture This callouts explain and illustrate phamacologic functions and complex pathways. 
• Nursing Care Caution features provide details about drug warnings along with dangerous signs and symptoms to help you identify problems quickly.
• Education Edge boxes provide important information you should share with your patient.

A three-step process based on clinical judgement concepts is provided throughout the chapters to help you care for individuals taking commonly prescribed medications. The end-of-chapter Quick Quizzes help you practice NCLEX-style questions.

Ready to master the medication process? Tap into the go-to resource for nursing pharmacology basics, with the fully updated new sixth edition of Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy!®.

Table of Contents:

1              Fundamentals of Nursing Pharmacology

2              Principles of Safe Medication Administration

3              Patient Education and Medication Safety

4              Dermatologic Drugs

5              Pain Medications

6              Autonomic Nervous System Drugs

7              Neurologic and Neuromuscular Drugs

8              Cardiovascular Drugs

9              Respiratory Drugs

10           Gastrointestinal Drugs

11           Genitourinary Drugs

12           Hematologic Drugs

13           Endocrine Drugs

14           Sensory Drugs

15           Psychotropic Drugs

16           Anti-Infective Drugs

17           Anti-Inflammatory, Antiallergy, and Immunosuppressant Drugs

18           Antineoplastic Drugs

19           Drugs for Fluid and Electrolyte Balance

Appendices