Essential reference for students and clinicians
Havard’s Nursing Guide to Drugs is an indispensable guide for nurses and nursing students that can be used both as a quick reference for medicine information and to acquire a deeper understanding for safe and effective drug administration by nurses.
The guide is accessible and user friendly. It provides all the information you need for safe administration of medication, with drugs classified by both therapeutic class and body system for easy navigation.
The twelfth edition has been comprehensively reviewed and updated to ensure that usage, dose, side-effects, contraindications and precautions are consistent with current Australian pharmaceutical guidelines.
- Easy-to-use format - search for drugs by therapeutic class or body system
- All the important information nurses need - poisons information, formulae for calculations of drug doses and drip rates
- Nursing considerations such as patient safety, administration advice and cautions
- Drug monographs include active ingredient and trade names, available forms, action, use, dosage, adverse effects and interactions
- Patient education and advice notes to improve patient care and outcomes
- A separate durable pocket card suitable for attaching to a lanyard with formulae, useful units and concentrations, and common abbreviations
- Available in print and eBook
New to this edition
- Each drug reviewed to ensure its relevance for nurses in Australia
- Chapter introductions updated citing the latest evidence, in a language that promotes nurse and nursing student understanding
- Updated icons offering a quick visual guide, helping readers locate key drug information including pregnancy and breastfeeding safety, crushability, dosage adjustments, and considerations for older adults and in sports
- Therapeutic Goods Administration drug scheduling incorporated specifically for Schedule 8 medications
Table of Contents
Introduction
At a Glance
General Patient Teaching and Advice
Reviewers
- Acne treatment?
- Analgesics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs NSAID
- Anorectics and weight-loss agents
- Anthelmintics??
- Antialzheimer's agents?
- Antianginal agents??
- Antianxiety agents??
- Antiarrhythmic agents??
- Antiasthma agents, bronchodilators and respiratory agents
- Antibacterial?agents?
- Anticoagulant and antithrombotic agents?
- Antidepressants?
- Antidiabetic agents?
- Antidiarrhoeal agents?
- Antidotes, antagonists and chelating agents
- Antiemetic agents?
- Antiepileptics?
- Antifungal agents?
- Antiglaucoma agents??
- Antigout and uricolytic agents?
- Antihistamines
- Antihypertensive agents?
- Antimalarial agents
- Antimigraine agents?
- Antimycobacterial agents?
- Antineoplastic agents?
- Antineoplastic support agents
- Antiparkinson's agents?
- Antiplatelet agents
- Antiprotozoal agents
- Antipsychotic and mood stabilising agents?
- Antiulcer agents??
- Antiviral agents?
- Bladder function disorder agents
- Bone and calcium regulating agents
- Cardiac glycosides?
- Cholinergic and anticholinergic agents
- Corticosteroids
- Cough suppressants, expectorants and mucolytics
- Dermatological agents?
- Disease modifying antirheumatic drugs
- Diuretics?
- Drug dependence
- Erectile dysfunction agents
- Eye, ear, nose and throat agents
- Fibrinolytic agents?
- Gastrointestinal agents miscellaneous
- General anaesthetics?
- Haemopoietic agents??
- Haemostatics?
- Hypothalamic and pituitary hormones
- Immunomodifiers
- Laxatives
- Lipid regulating agents?
- Local anaesthetics
- Metabolic disorders agents
- Movement disorders agents
- Muscle relaxants
- Neuromuscularblocking agents
- Opioid analgesics?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding
- Pulmonary hypertension agents
- Sedatives and hypnotics?
- Sex hormones?
- Stimulants
- Sympathomimetic agents
- Thyroid and antithyroid agents
- Vaccines, immunoglobulins and antivenoms
- Vasodilators
- Vitamins, minerals and electrolytes
- Antacids??
Appendix 1: Poisoning and its treatment
Appendix 2: Poisons information centres
Appendix 3: Changes to drug names
Bibliography
Index
