Drug Guide for Psychiatric Nursing

From The Critics

Reviewer: Eileen Trigoboff, RN, CS, DNS(Buffalo Psychiatric Center)
Description: This is the second edition of a drug guide (the previous edition appeared in 1990) for practical use in psychiatric settings. The book details classifications, special dosing, lists all commonly used drugs alphabetically, and has a number of appendixes. Each drug is described within the context of nursing process as well as within a psychopharmacological framework.
Purpose: This purpose is to provide nurses with information necessary to administer medications safely while considering the framework of nursing process in the psychiatric setting. These are useful and important objectives. This is a clearly articulated book that meets all the author's objectives.
Audience: This book targets an audience of nursing students, nurses, and advanced practice nurses in psychiatric settings where psychopharmacology is utilized. The contributors have credentials in nursing and pharmacology specialties.
Features: Most of the references could be more up-to-date (many are from the 1980s), although the information is accurate and current and the layout of the book is precise. The index lists trade and generic names of drugs separately, which makes looking up a compound much easier than one or the other would be. Underlining frequent side effects and capitalizing life-threatening side effects brings the information to the foreground, unlike other drug guides. Every drug entry incorporates the nursing process aspect of psychiatry along with information about medications.
Assessment: This book offers an interesting and efficient resource for up-to-the-minute drug information for psychiatric nurses. Useful and readable formats offer quality access to aspects of psychopharmacology within a nursing framework It. It would be very useful for both student nurses and advanced practice nurses.

Eileen Trigoboff

This is the second edition of a drug guide (the previous edition appeared in 1990) for practical use in psychiatric settings. The book details classifications, special dosing, lists all commonly used drugs alphabetically, and has a number of appendixes. Each drug is described within the context of nursing process as well as within a psychopharmacological framework. This purpose is to provide nurses with information necessary to administer medications safely while considering the framework of nursing process in the psychiatric setting. These are useful and important objectives. This is a clearly articulated book that meets all the author's objectives. This book targets an audience of nursing students, nurses, and advanced practice nurses in psychiatric settings where psychopharmacology is utilized. The contributors have credentials in nursing and pharmacology specialties. Most of the references could be more up-to-date (many are from the 1980s), although the information is accurate and current and the layout of the book is precise. The index lists trade and generic names of drugs separately, which makes looking up a compound much easier than one or the other would be. Underlining frequent side effects and capitalizing life-threatening side effects brings the information to the foreground, unlike other drug guides. Every drug entry incorporates the nursing process aspect of psychiatry along with information about medications. This book offers an interesting and efficient resource for up-to-the-minute drug information for psychiatric nurses. Useful and readable formats offer quality access to aspects of psychopharmacology within a nursing framework It. It would be very useful for bothstudent nurses and advanced practice nurses.

3 Stars from Doody