nurse and medical family therapy

2012 First Place AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing!

"[This] is a valuable addition to the library of both primary care and psychiatric-mental health nurses, nurse practitioners, and their students."--Doody's Medical Reviews

This is the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-IV-TR disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management. It has been compiled by expert practitioners in psychiatric care and is designed for use by nurse practitioners and other primary caregivers in clinical practice.

The guide is organized in an easy-to-access format with disorders for which drugs can play a significant therapeutic role. The listing for each disorder includes clinical features and symptoms, as well as information about the most current and effective drugs for management. A clearly formatted table identifies the first and second lines of drug therapy along with adjunctive therapies for each disorder. Drugs are organized according to classification, and each listing provides the essential information needed to safely prescribe and monitor a patient's response to a particular drug. This includes brand and generic names, drug class, customary dosage, side effects, drug interactions, pharmacokinetics, precautions, and management of special populations. Convenient, practical, and portable, this guide will be a welcome and frequently used resource.

• Presents psychopharmacological treatment guidelines for major DSM-IV-TR disorders and parameters for use of each drug
• Prioritizes drugs according to their clinical efficacy and recommended treatment algorithms
• Includes brand and generic names, customary dosages, side effects, drug interactions, pharmacokinetics, precautions, and management of special populations
• Provides easy-to-read tables for quick clinical consultation
• Offers information on clinical algorithms, lab evaluation, and preventive services

Palliative care as only a nurse can teach it

Includes full-text PDA download!

In this highly useful book, Campbell shared with you everything you must know about providing the best possible care to end-of-life patients and their families.

Vignettes, clinical pearls, and nursing alerts help you to understand:

• The nurse's role in providing care to dying patients
• Special approaches to talking with patients and their families
• Patient and family needs
• Withdrawal of life-sustaining devices
• Nurse's grief

• UNIQUE! Summaries of Major Nursing Implications at the end of each chapter help you understand how to apply concepts to clinical practice in an easy-to-understand format.
• A prototype drug approach uses one drug within each drug family that characterizes all members of its group to give you the knowledge you need to learn not only about related drugs currently on the market, but also about those drugs that will be released once the student begins practice.
• Uses large print to identify essential "need-to-know” information and small print to identify "nice-to-know” information
• Concise drug summary tables present quick reference to detailed information on individual drugs, including class, generic and trade names, dosages, routes, and indications.
• End-of-chapter Key Points are summarized in a bulleted format to facilitate your review of the most important concepts in each chapter.
• Patient and family teaching content is highlighted to emphasize this key content and provide you with critical information to include in teaching patients about drugs and effects and stresses points for educating family members when they will be helping to care for the patient.
• Provides Anatomy and Physiology and Pathophysiology reviews at the beginning of chapters to help you understand the relationships pharmacology and the biologic systems that drugs influence.
• A comprehensive collection of appendixes includes a concise overview of Canadian drug information, gender-related drugs, drug administration techniques, normal laboratory values, and much more.
• Companion CD-ROM features 700 NCLEX examination-style multiple-choice review questions, animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects, flash cards, key points, and numerous electronic calculators.

• Includes numerous new drugs and formulations recently approved by the FDA to keep you current with today's drug therapy practice.
• Special Interest Topic boxes address late-breaking issues in pharmacology that have recently emerged in the media so you can learn the current events that may affect them in practice.
• Extensive revision to the Cancer Chemotherapy unit provides you with up-to-date information on new drug therapy in this complex and rapidly changing area of practice.
• Companion CD-ROM features audio and printable key points that you can download to a CD or MP3 player to listen to and review at their leisure.
• Additional full-color graphics illustrate how drugs work in the body and depict key pharmacologic principles.

• UNIQUE! Written specifically for nurse practitioners with an overall emphasis on patient teaching and health promotion.
• UNIQUE! Covers specific topics such as prescriptive authority, role implementation, and writing prescriptions.
• Presents comprehensive coverage of the drugs most commonly prescribed in - and the issues most relevant to - primary care practice.
• UNIQUE! Identifies the Top 200 drugs in chapter openers with a special icon and covers them in-depth to familiarize you with the most important, need-to-know drug information.
• Uses a consistent heading scheme for each prototype drug discussion to make it easier to learn and understand key concepts.
• Includes an introductory chapter on "Design and Implementation of Patient Education” that highlights content on patient teaching and compliance.
• Includes specific "Patient Education” sections in each drug chapter.
• Provides extensive coverage of drug therapy for special populations to alert you to special considerations based on age, pregnancy, race and other factors.
• A separate chapter on "Complementary and Alternative Therapies” discusses the available complementary and alternative modalities, including detailed information on actions, uses, and interactions of commonly used herbs.
• Drug Overview tables at the beginning of each chapter outline the classifications of drugs discussed and provide a handy reference of drug classes and subclasses, generic names, and trade names.
• Clinical Alerts highlight essential information that primary care providers must remember in order to avoid serious problems, including cautions for prescribing, information about drug interactions, or warnings about particularly ominous adverse effects.
• An entire unit covers drugs for health promotion to introduce you to drugs commonly seen in outpatient primary care settings and to prepare you for practice in a society increasingly focused on health promotion and disease prevention.
• Includes separate chapters on Immunizations and Biologicals, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, Vitamins and Minerals, Over-the-Counter Medications, and Complementary and Alternative Therapies.

• Drug coverage focuses on "key drugs” rather than "prototype drugs,” since prototype drugs are technically the first drug in a given class but not always the best, newest, or most commonly prescribed drug.
• Separate chapter on "Treatment Guidelines and Evidence-Based Decision-Making” provides practical guidelines for using the current best evidence to make decisions about the care of individual patients.
• All content extensively reviewed by a PharmD consultant to ensure the most accurate, current, and clinically relevant pharmacology content.
• Includes separate chapters on drugs to treat ADHD and dementia in order to expand on the current treatments available for these two common conditions.

Antibiotic Basics for Clinicians, Second Edition, shows you how to apply your knowledge of pharmacology and microbiology in order to select the appropriate antibiotic.  Rather than rely on rote memorization, you’ll learn the underlying rationale for treatment of common infectious diseases and pathogens. The text focuses on antibacterial agents, examining individual antibiotics and antibiotic classes as well as definitive and empiric therapies—providing a framework for prescription and clinical preparation for students training to be physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacologists, or medical technologists. Clinicians also rely on Antibiotic Basics for quick reference or review.

The Second Edition includes current research and new approaches to emerging resistant organisms such as community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing bacteria.  In addition, the book has been updated to reflect changes in treatment guidelines, including new guidelines for Clostridium difficile colitis and urinary tract infections.

 Special features help you “think like a clinician”:

• Illustrations help you understand how antibiotics fight against bacterial infections.
• Mnemonics throughout the text make it easier to remember which antibiotics are prescribed for specific pathogens.
• Searchable online version of the text takes you to the content you need from any web-enabled device.
• Case studies demonstrate how the principles set forth in the text are applied in clinical practice.
• Questions and answers improve your ability to choose the right antibacterial agent.
• Appendices include dosing for adults and children, use of antibacterial agents in pregnancy, and treatment of bioterrorism agents.