Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses (8th ed)

Designed especially for students, this portable drug handbook contains information on more than 60 drug classifications and 4,000 individual generic and trade name drugs.

It includes a color atlas of drug administration along with 16 detailed illustrations showing how drugs work at the cellular level.

Alerts and icons highlight key information. This edition also contains NANDA nursing diagnoses, which are useful in writing care plans.

There is a companion website that includes quarterly drug updates, including FDA alerts.

There is also a companion CD-ROM that features over 250 NCLEX(R) examination-style questions for the drugs you're likely to administer during clinicals, a calculation tutorial, a drug card creator allowing you to print your own drug information, and 30 clinical calculators.

This is a revised reprint (updated for 2010) with an addition of 21 new drugs.