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We're getting a head start on the new year with the release of 2017 Nurse’s Drug Handbook. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

“I think the Jones & Bartlett Learning Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the best that I have seen.”–Sylvia Herrlich, MSN, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing at Del Mar College

We are excited to announce the release of our updated Nurse’s Drug Handbook app. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Android, it lets you take the latest Jones & Bartlett Learning Nurse’s Drug Handbook wherever you go.

A current, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference, the app provides:

• A list of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names
• Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedule
• Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information
• Incompatibilities and contraindications

Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide: PDA, Powered by Skyscape, Inc
Lynn Fitzgerald Macksey, RN, MSN, CRNA
ISBN-13: 9780763752910  |  © 2007

All of the vital information in the Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide is now available in PDA format!

Keep up to date with information on:

• The anesthesia machine, CO2 absorption, capnography, BIS and TOF monitoring and positioning/nerve damage information
• Jet ventilation, double-lumen endobronchial tubes, difficult airway algorhythm, blood and IVF; formulas and conversion charts (temperature, kg, BMI) with IV and drug calculations (easy conversions of ratio to mg/ml, % to mg/ml, % solution in dilution)
• All anesthesia agents: MAC chart with volatile agents and physiologic response listed per system; induction, sedation, narcotic, muscle relaxants and all reversal information (with analgesia/amnesia/histamine response); antiemetics, alpha-beta agonists and antagonists, common adrenergic, antihypertensive and antiarrhythmic agents, including common antibiotic regiments and herbals
• Pediatric inhalation, anesthetic, IVF/Blood charts along with general and code guidelines; obstetrical L&D drugs and OB disease states; Ester and Amide local anesthetic charts; Spinal, Epidural and Caudal procedures and drugs; common Peripheral Nerve Block procedures and drugs; 2005 AHA code guidelines, heart valve disorders with volume and BP treatments; arterial, PA, CVP insertion and waveform; heart chamber info; subclavian/external jugular insertion info; and Pulmonary topics such as Gas embolism diagnosis and treatment, V-Q ratios, PFT’s, respiratory formulas.

Porter's Pocket Guide to Emergency and Critical Care: PDA, Powered by Skyscape, Inc
William Porter, RN, CFRN, EMT-P
ISBN-13: 9780763752880  |  © 2007

All of the vital information in Porter Pocket Guide to Emergency and Critical Care in now available in PDA format!

Keep up-to-date with information on:

• New ACLS and PALS guidelines
• Detailed coverage of 56 critical medications highlighting: dose, indications, side effects, contraindications, nursing implications, and administration
• Dosage charts
• Easy-to-understand Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation
• Quick and easy 12-lead ECG interpretation
• Treatment protocols for Hypothermia, Burn Management, Acute MI, Rapid Sequence Intubation, Hyperkalemia, Organ Donation
• Extensive cross reference of brand and generic drug names, provides classifications/indications for over 1,800 drugs