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. It’s the #1 Drug Guide for patient safety with red tabs for high alert medications, red, bold, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects, a REMS icon, special considerations for patient populations, IV administration subheads, pharmacogenomic content, patient, family teaching guidance, and Canadian-specific content, including monographs for Canadian approved drugs and Canadian trade names.

Table of Contents:

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. In Memoriam
5. Dedication
6. Acknowledgments
7. Contributors
8. Contents
9. How to Use Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses
10. Evidence-Based Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics
11. Pharmacogenomics
12. Medication Errors: Improving Practices and Patient Safety
13. Detecting and Managing Adverse Drug Reactions
14. Overview of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Systems (REMS)
15. Special Dosing Considerations
16. The Pediatric Patient
17. The Older Adult Patient
18. Women of Reproductive Potential
19. Renal Impairment
20. Hepatic Impairment
21. Heart Failure
22. Body Size
23. Drug Interactions
24. The Cytochrome P450 System: What Is It and Why Should I Care?