Pharmacologic basis of nursing practice / Julia B. Freeman, Sherry F. Queener, Viginia Burke Karb
Publication details: St. Louis : Mosby, c1997Edition: 5th editionDescription: xv, 889 p. : ill. (Some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:- 0815115148
- 9780815115144
- QV 4 F855p 1997
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Includes indexes
Contents
Section I: How Drugs Work in the Body:
1. Drugs in the Body:
2. Effects of life span, genetics and medical Conditions for Drug Therapy.
3. Legal Implications of Drug Therapy.
4. Application of the Nursing Process to Drug Therapy.
Section II: Nursing Care Related to Drug Therapy:
5. Drug Administration.
6. Calculating Drug Dosages.
7. Over-the-Counter Drugs and Self-Medication.
8. Issues of Drug Abuse.
9. Care of the Poisoned Patient.
Section III: How the Nervous System Controls Body Function:
10. Introduction to Autonomic Pharmacology.
11. Mechanisms of Cholinergic Control.
12. Mechanisms of Adrenergic Control.
Section IV: Drugs Affecting the Cardiovascular and Renal Systems.
13. Antihypertensive Drugs.
14. Diuretics.
15. Antianginals and Other Vasodilators.
16. Drugs to Treat Shock.
17. Fluids and Electrolytes.
18. Cardiac Glycosides and other Drugs for Congestive Heart Failure.
19. Drugs to Control Cardiac Arrhythmia's.
Section V: Drugs Modifying the Blood
20. Agents Affecting Blood Coagulation.
21. Drugs to Lower Blood Lipid Levels.
22. Drugs to Treat Anaemia.
Section VI: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal System:
23. Drugs Affecting Motility: Anticholinergics, Antispasmodics, and Cholinergic Stimulants.
24. Laxatives and Antidiarrheals.
25. Antiemetics.
26. Drugs to Treat Ulcers.
Section VII: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System:
27. Brochodilators and other drugs to treat asthma and other pulmonary diseases
28. Antihistamines.
29. Drugs to control Bronchial Secretions.
Section VIII: Drugs to Manage Pain:
30. Aspirin, Acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and Drugs to Treat Gout.
31. Opioids.
32. Management of the Patient in Pain.
Section IX: Drugs Affecting the Immune System:
33. Basic function of the immune system
34. Immunization.
35. Immunomodulators and Care of Patients with Altered Immune Function.
36. Glucocorticoids to Treat Inflammatory Conditions.
37. Drugs for selected immune diseases
Section X: Antiinfective Agents:
38. Introduction to the Use of Antiinfective Drugs.
39. Penicillins, Cephalosporins, and Related Drugs.
40. Quinolones.
41. Macrolides, Clindamycin, and Miscellaneous Penicillin.
42. Tetracyclines and Chloramphenicol.
43. Aminoglycosides.
44. Sulfonamides, Trimethoprim, and Drugs to Treat Urinary Tract Infections.
45. Drugs to Treat Tuberculosis and Other Microbacteria Infections.
46. Antifungal Drugs.
47. Antiviral Agents
48. Drugs to Treat Protozoal and Helminthic Infestations.
Section XI: Drugs Used to Treat Cancer:
49. Cytotoxic Drugs to Treat Cancer.
50. Tissue-Specific Anticancer agents
Section XII: Drugs for the Psychoneurologic System:
51. Sedative-Hypnotic agents and Antianxiety agents and alcohol
52. Antipsychotic Drugs.
53. Antidepressant Drugs.
54. Central Nervous System Stimulants.
Section XIII: Drugs for the Neurologic System:
55. Anticonvulsants.
56. Drugs to Treat Parkinsonism and Alzheimer's Disease.
57. Centrally-Acting Skeletal Muscle Relaxants.
Section XIV: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems:
58. Introduction to Endocrinology.
59. Drugs Affecting the Pituitary Gland.
60. Drugs Affecting the Adrenal Gland.
61. Drugs Affecting the Thyroid Gland.
62. Drugs Affecting Calcium Metabolism.
63. Drugs to Treat Diabetes Mellitus.
64. Drugs acting on the female reproductive system
65. Drugs for Labor and Delivery.
66. Drugs Affecting the Male Reproductive System.
Section XV: Drugs for the patient receiving anesthesia
67. Local anesthetics
68. General anesthetics
69. Neuromuscular blocking agents
Section XVI: Ophthalmic drugs
70. Drugs to treat Glaucoma
71. Drugs affecting the eye
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