Davis’s Canadian Drug Guide for Nurses, Twentieth Edition delivers everything nursing students and practicing nurses need to administer medications safely across the lifespan-well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names. Its nursing-focused Cure & Care approach makes it the ideal resource for both students and practicing nurses by delivering exactly what they need to know to provide the very best care for their patients. Cure explains what the drug does, while Care describes what the nurse does and how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics.

LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE AT A GLANCE

• #1 Drug Guide for patient safety
  • Red tab for high alert medications, plus in-depth high alerts and patient safety coverage
  • Red, bold, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects
  • REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
  • Drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-natural product interactions
• Special considerations for patient populations, including geriatric, obstetric, lactation, pediatric, and reproductive considerations
• IV administration subheads
• Pharmacogenomic content
• Patient and family teaching guidance

Canadian-specific content, including monographs on drugs approved for use in Canada but not the US, additional Canadian trade names, and summaries of differences between US and Canadian pharmaceutical practices, with contributions from Canadian educators and reviewers

FREE ONLINE LEARNING, CARE PLANNING, AND PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS

• Audio library of 1,200+ drug names to help with pronunciation
• Tutorials with self-tests, including Preventing Medication Errors and Psychotropic Drugs Calculators for body mass index, metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage per kilogram, and Fahrenheit/Celsius
• Interactive case studies with real-life scenarios and guided questions
• Video clips illustrating the safe administration of medications
• Appendix N: Combination Drugs