Springhouse Nurse’s Drug Guide 2005 provides comprehensive information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade drugs, including 40 recently-approved drugs, in an easy-to-use format. Endorsed by the National Student Nurses’ Association, this guide includes a free mini-CD with a skill-building drug-class game and an NCLEX�-style pharmacology review self-test. Other features include a full-color photoguide to over 400 tablets and capsules; emphasis on drug therapy and the nursing process; chapters on dosage calculation, drug administration, and preventing drug errors; coverage of 40 pharmacologic and therapeutic classifications with prototype drugs highlighted; complete entries on 25 herbal medicines; and drug updates at eDrugInfo.com.

A popular core nursing pharmacology textbook, Clinical Drug Therapy provides unique coverage of nurisng interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. Highly praised for its organized and readable presentaion, the text emplains the why behind each nursing action and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients. New to the Eighth Edition are case studies integrated into each chapter with case-based questions that foster critical thinking. New Research Briefs summarize current research and its nursing implications. A new chapter covers drugs for obesity, and all nutrition products have been consolidated into one chapter. New NCLEX-style questions appear at the end of each drug chapter. Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2007 provides comprehensive, student-friendly information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including over 20 recently-approved drugs. It also includes a full-color photoguide to over 200 tablets and capsules. This edition has more Alert logos to highlight potential drug errors; I.V. incompatibility information in every I.V. drug entry; new appendices on abbreviations to avoid and toxic drug interactions; and an expanded combination drugs appendix.

Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide 2008 provides comprehensive, student-friendly information on over 750 generic and over 3,500 trade-name drugs, including nearly 20 recently-approved drugs and dozens of recently-approved indications. This edition highlights rapid-onset interactions and has more Alert logos to highlight potential drug errors. New appendices cover dietary teaching for drug therapy and avoiding miscommunication in drug orders. Other features include a full-color photoguide to over 200 tablets and capsules; coverage of 40 pharmacologic and therapeutic classifications with prototype drugs highlighted; nursing process sections in every drug entry; and updates on eDrugInfo.com. A free bound-in CD-ROM contains over 300 NCLEX�-style questions, including alternate-format questions.

"Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide"--now endorsed by the National Student Nurses' Association--covers more than 750 commonly used generic drugs and more than 3,000 trade names in an easy-to-find, A-to-Z format that incorporates the nursing process. The tightly organized monographs and clear, consistent writing style help beginning students more easily understand the material. The comprehensive pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics information and the route-oneset-peak-duration charts help more advanced students readily gasp a drug's actions.

Lists drug actions and interactions, describes drug therapy for children and the elderly, and provides details for the use of five thousand drugs.