Nurse's Pocket Drug Guide

Excellent compact book to carry around for student nurse. I wouldn't go any older than 2008 (this is 2009), but this book offers quick concise basic information when in the clinical setting!

I bought this book and used it in my 3rd & 4th semester clinical rotations. Small enough to carry around in uniform pocket. Useful as a quick guide to different drugs. I found it very helpful. Helped me get through my clinical rotations.

This book is very helpful in my job and has more information in 1 book than 3 of my old books put together.

Convenient for quick reference to look up unknown meds, fits easily in my scrubs pocket, but still missing some newer meds. Also, many are listed by only one name in index, making it harder to find unfamiliar items. Most common drugs are included, however I bought the new version to include new drugs not listed in the older version I had, and was disappointed to find some items I recently looked up were still missing. I could have continued using my 2006 version just as well and saved my money.

I'm happy with my purchase, but I think that maybe if it had a spiral binding it could possibly be an easier tool to access. I located a similar reference guide with a spiral binding and I found it to be much easier to handle especially when you're looking up more than one drug. That is my ONLY complaint because it's still a great tool to have that fits perfectly in my pocket.