The pharmacologic basis of patient care / Mary K. Asperheim, Laurel A. Eisenhauer.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

1.Introduction to pharmacology.
2.The role of the nurse in drug therapy.
3.The administration of medications.
4.Mathematic principles of drug therapy.
5.The action of drugs in the body.
6.Vitamins and minerals.
7.Anrihistamines and immunizing agents.
8.Topical anti-infectives.
9.Systemic anti-invectives.
10.Systemic anti-infectives in specific infections.
11.Drugs that affect the central nervous system.
12.Psychotherapeutic agents.
13.Drugs that affect the autonomic nervous system.
14.Drugs that affect the heart and the circulatory system.
15.Blood coagulants and anticoagulands.
16.Hormones and hormone-like substances.
17.Drugs that affect the respiratory tract.
18.Drugs that affect the gastrointestinal tract.
19.Drugs that affect the skin and the mucous membranes.
20.Drugs that affect the kidney and body fluid composition
21.Antineoplastic agents
22.Radioactive drugs
23.Enzymes
24.Prostaglandins
25.Diagnostic agents
26.Toxicology
27.Drug abuse and drug dependence