[.ca] Davis's Drug Guide For Nurses (Without CD) (ISBN 0803611544)

The best drug guide!:
I have used all the drug guides and this one is the most complete and easiest to use out of all of them. It is a little bigger than the others but it makes up with it with more simple language and more complete info. Along with the Taber's this book is a must for every nurse.

This is the only drug book you will need:
I have bought four different drug books since I began nursing school ...I sold the other three after I started using this one. The disc is great for finding information for clinicals....and plan on keeping it after I graduate....well done!

Keep this with you while administering meds to clients.:
I teach nursing, and this DAVIS Drug Guide for Nurses is a must-have for all my students as they learn how to professionally administer medications to their clients. All nurses should have a convenient system to use when the occasion arises that a nurse gives a medication that they are unfamilair with...I found that this DAVIS Guide is a quick and easy way to investigate the medication, it's indications, contraindications, nursing considerations and idiosyncrasies. Adverse reactions and normal dosing ranges are included for all medications ..... There is also caution advised to prevent medication errors....near misses are always preferred over real errors any day. How the heart skips a beat whenever that happens! Nurses NEVER intend to make errors, and this book gives a cautionary tale in the beginning - to help professionals understand the grave seriousness of it all. It's never too late to buy an informative drug guide, and here I recommend this book to ALL --- professional or not. It's cruicial that all people who give medications or take them understand the actions of the medications comprehensively. The more one knows the more choices they posses. Before you pass the meds, pass the DAVIS Drug Guide!

Great Drug Guide!:
I am a 3rd semester nursing student and I absolutely love this drug guide. I have used others before, but this one is the best. It has the best IV drug administration info. It has side effects listed as the most life threatening in bold, and the most frequent in underlines. That makes it easy to wade through all of the possible side effects to the most likely and the most threatening that you may need to know for patient care and, of course, when getting quized by clinical instructors :) When my friends can't find a drug or a detail about administration they always ask for my book or my PDA (i have this version on my PDA also). This is the best drug book I have seen; it also has nursing diagnoses and great patient teaching instructions.

Getting out of date every day - Not a Mac CD:
I use this in nursing school and am finding a new edition is needed. Many new drugs commonly used are not in this eighth edition. I also am disappointed that they advertise the CD rom as Windows or Mac - clearly not usable in the Macintosh. :(