The Essential Pharmacology Guide for Nursing Students — Melissa Wynne, MSN, PNP
- Written by a practising nurse practitioner
- Organised by body system, the way nurses work
- Read a drug's class straight off its name
- 224 full-colour pages across 14 body systems
NCLEX prep had me drowning in drug names. This guide made pharm click. Clear, colourful, and easy to review. Would highly recommend it!
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What's inside the book?
The same three zones on every page, across all fourteen body systems.
Drug Class Summary, then Clinical Use and Monitoring, then Exam Quick Check. The same structure repeats across all fourteen systems, so once you have learned to read one page every page after it is faster.
Prefix and suffix tables across cardiovascular, respiratory, neuro, anti-infectives and endocrine. Instead of memorising drugs one at a time, you learn to identify a class, its mechanism and its main safety alert from the name alone.
Labor and OB medications including magnesium sulfate, tocolytics and uterotonics. Eleven herbal supplements and their major interactions. A full antidotes and reversal agents section organised by system with priority notes.
Built to be used three times over. In class when a concept will not click, on the ward as a fast check before administering, and again during exam prep for the patterns and safety priorities. Each page carries Exam Keywords, Red Flag alerts and Clinical Tips.
Fourteen Systems. One Pattern.
Fourteen Systems. One Pattern.
Written by someone who has been at the bedside.
Melissa Wynne, MSN, PNP is a practising Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and nursing educator who went back to nursing school later in life. She wrote this because the resources she could find were written for people who already understood pharmacology.
Patterns, not flashcards.
The prefix and suffix tables teach you to identify a drug's class, mechanism and main safety alert from its name alone. It is a skill that keeps working long after the exam, every time you meet a drug you have never seen before.
It covers the corners.
Labor and OB medications, eleven herbal supplements and their interactions, and a full antidotes and reversal agents section organised by system. These are the sections most guides leave out, and they are routinely tested.
Full colour, and large enough to read.
224 pages at 11 by 8.5 inches, with every drug class page following the same three-zone layout. Big enough to scan quickly when you are checking something before you administer it.
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