Mini Guide To Maternity/Ob Drugs

by Spratto, George R., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781428320024
• ISBN10: 1428320024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-01
• Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning

Summary

The Mini Guide series is created as a set of pocket-guides that provide quick, essential drug information for nursing. The 3 pharmacology mini-guides included in this funding are drug guides that focus on the most important drug information needed for pediatrics, maternity/OB, and geriatrics. Every nurse is responsible for calculating and administering medications to patients, which requires extensive knowledge of pharmacology and specific drug agents. The mini-guides are appropriate for the clinical portion of the pediatrics course, the maternity/OB course, and the geriatric course as well as for practicing nurses. The mini-guides are portable, indispensable, scrub-pocket-sized tools that students and professionals can refer to for the delivery of safe and effective health care.

Table of Contents

Tab 1

Introduction

Drug Regulation and Control

Dosage Forms and Routes of Medication Administration

Calculating Medication Dosages

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

Factors Affecting Drug Activity During Pregnancy

Drug Classifications for Various Systems

Vaccination in Pregnancy

Drug Toxicity Affecting the Fetus

Substance Abuse in Pregnancy and Lactation

Tabs 2 - 6 A - C D - H I - M N - R S - Z Tab 7

Commonly Prescribed Controlled Substances

Measurement Equivalents and Conversions

Abbreviations Commonly Found in Drug Prescriptions

Common Terminology Confusions

Common Intravenous Drugs

Approximate Normal Values

Diagnostic Drugs

Drug Overdose and Antidotes

Use of Herbs in Pregnancy and Lactation

Emergency Drugs

Pregnancy Categories Assigned by the FDA

Index

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