Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference [With CDROM]

This drug reference book makes it easy to find the drugs you have questions about, look at drug-to-drug interactions, affected lab values etc... Mosby's Drug Reference is good for professional use in clinical environments or for the average person who wants to understand medications they or someone they love are taking. The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five is that there are some medications available now that might not be in this edition. That doesn't matter too much if you are using commonly prescribed drugs or medications that have been around for awhile. I would highly recommend this product. Grady

This is the second time I have bought an edition of Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference books. Last one was 2006 edition. I find it easy to use, easy to read and easy to locate drug in question. I am a Medical Trauma Coder and would not be with out it. Would highly recommend this reference book: "Mosby's 2008 Nursing Drug Reference". M. Robinson

The book was as good as new. It was promised to be in great shape and it was. Thanks for the honesty. I would definitly order from this rescouce again. thanks

This book is highly recommended for both classroom and clinical work. I have found it to be helpful on many levels. The book reviews drugs as well as drug classes. Each entry outlines:Mechanism of actionUsesSide effects and adverse reactionsContraindicationsPharmacokeneticsInteractionsPossible nursing diagnosisNursing considerations (such as assessing, administering, teaching patient and family)In addition to the entries the appendix offeres a wealth of info including high alert drugs, formulas for dosage calcualation, FDA pregnancy categories, and much more. Of course, as with any drug book, you can expect some drugs to be missing as so many new drugs are introduced that it is hard to keep up. Nonetheless, Mosby's book is well written and easy to navigate.

Hello! I am in my first year of nursing school, and we have to do drug cards that must include things like the trade name, generic name, action of drug, its uses, side effects, how to administer it, how to evalutate its effects, and what we need to teach our patients about the drug. Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference 2000 gives you exactly that, the information you need and in easy to read terms. This book also offers other drug interactions plus herbal med. interactions. This book has been a great help to me and an asset to my nursing career, it helps me to know not only what the drug is for, but why I am giving it and how it works. I recommend this to any nurse or student nurse.