Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals

Description

UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY

1. Introduction to Pharmacology
2. Drug Testing, Drug Forms, and Drug Measurements
3. Prescriptions and Using Drugs Therapeutically

UNIT II: DRUGS RELATED TO A BODY SYSTEM

1. Gastrointestinal Drugs
2. Analgesic Drugs and Musculoskeletal Drugs
3. Respiratory Drugs
4. Cardiovascular Drugs
5. Hematologic Drugs
6. Anti-Infective Drugs
7. Urinary Drugs
8. Reproductive Drugs
9. Neurologic Drugs
10. Psychiatric Drugs
11. Integumentary and Ophthalmic Drugs

UNIT III: APPENDICES

1. Cancer Drugs Appendix
2. Vaccines Appendix
3. Emergency Drugs, Intravenous Fluids, Blood Products, and Anesthetic Drugs
4. Top Drugs by Sales and Prescriptions for 2019
5. Key Words with Definitions
6. Abbreviations, Short Forms, Symbols, and Their Meanings
7. Suffixes Common to Generic Drugs and Drug Categories
8. Error-Prone Abbreviations and Symbols

A-Z DRUG REFERENCE

Alphabetical List of Generic and Trade Name Drugs, Drug Categories, Indications, Doses, and See-and-Say Drug Pronunciations

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed.

For courses in pharmacology for health professions.

Making sense of pharmacology
Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals simplifies the vast world of drugs and pharmaceuticals. It groups drug categories by therapeutic effects and the disease they’re used to treat, while streamlining drug data through an A-Z Drug Reference and other resources. The fully updated 6th edition has been condensed into a 15-chapter text, to better accommodate a 16-week semester schedule and to let students focus on just one chapter per week. New “see-and-say” drug pronunciations, word part and meaning boxes, and enhanced activities further stimulate students’ interest in and retention of the material.

Accessible organization of drugs and drug categories

• Drug categories are grouped by therapeutic effects or the disease they’re used to treat. Each includes a description of how its drugs work and their therapeutic effects, plus any side effects, adverse effects, or drug interactions.
• UPDATED – Every chapter and each appendix has been updated to include the most current generic and trade name drugs, drug categories, and drug information available — right up to the date of publication.
• UPDATED – A-Z Drug Reference at the end of the text provides the most up-to-date data on generic and trade name drugs, indications for use, drug forms, strengths/doses, and “see-and-say” pronunciations for each drug listed.
• UPDATED – Some chapter material has been combined, for a new total of 15 chapters, to better accommodate a 16-week semester schedule. The remaining chapter material has been moved to an expanded list of appendices.

Learning tools

• EXPANDED – This edition has more illustrations and photographs of real drugs. The images picture drug forms, drug packages, drug labels, and drugs being administered to patients, adding realism to the learning experience.
• NEW – “See-and-say” drug pronunciations are now included after every generic drug in the chapters and appendices. The A–Z Drug Reference includes both the generic drug and trade name drug pronunciations.
• NEW – Word part and meaning boxes are new to this edition. They helps students see how a complex word can be broken down into its word parts and meanings, deepening their understanding of medical terminology.
• UPDATED – New drug words and phrases appear at the start of each chapter and appendix, including the terms biologic drugs, COVID-19 vaccine, prescription drug monitoring programs, and recombinant DNA technology.

Chapter-ending review

• UPDATED – Clinical Applications, updated for this edition, relate content to patient and clinical situations. They are supplemented by job-skill exercises such as interpreting handwritten prescriptions, identifying drug forms and labels, connecting diseases to drug category, and evaluating excerpts from medical case histories.
• UPDATED – Critical thinking questions, updated with new material, get students thinking discriminately about complex pharmaceutical decisions.
• UPDATED – Quiz Yourself questions at the end of each chapter test students’ retention of the chapter content. The questions now reflect new material.
• EXPANDED – Chapter-ending review has been expanded to include additional types of questions: matching, true or false, and fill in the blank.

About our author

Susan M. Turley, MA (Educ), BSN, RN, RHIT, is an experienced educator and practitioner in many areas of health care. She has a Master of Arts degree in adult education, a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and national certification in the field of health information management.

As a nurse, Susan has worked and administered drugs in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, physician office settings and a plasmapheresis center. She has also worked in an administrative capacity in managed care and long-term care, as a quality manager, health information manager, physician office auditor and infection control officer. She has also created physician credentialing databases.

As an educator, Susan has been an adjunct professor, teaching an introductory pharmacology course for students in the pharmacy technician, medical assisting and respiratory therapy programs at a community college. She also taught medical terminology and medical transcription courses there for many years, and she developed the bachelor’s and master’s curricula for the International Institute of Original Medicine. Susan was the co-leader for many medical transcription instructor training sessions, sponsored by Health Professions Institute. She was also a guest speaker at several seminars to prepare students to take health information management national certification examinations, sponsored by Stevens College.

As an author, she is known for clarity in presenting technically difficult material and for a special blend that includes humor and interesting anecdotes to stimulate learning and keep interest high. Students and colleagues alike have enthusiastically endorsed the accuracy and clarity of her textbooks.

Susan is also the author of Medical Language, 5th Edition (Pearson, 2020), as well as numerous medical and educational articles for national medical transcription journals. She has also been employed by physicians as an editor for articles submitted to peer-reviewed physician journals and for a chapter in an otolaryngology textbook for physicians.

To stay abreast of pharmacy trends and new drugs on the market, Susan subscribes to Drug Facts and Comparisons (Wolters Kluwer, 2021) and Drugs.com, and she participates in continuing education courses offered by Pharmacy Times. She is also a pharmacology consultant/editor for Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, 4th Edition (Pearson, 2021).

Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals simplifies the vast world of drugs and pharmaceuticals. It groups drug categories by therapeutic effects and the disease they’re used to treat, while streamlining drug data through an A-Z Drug Reference and other resources. The fully updated 6th edition has been condensed into a 15-chapter text, to better accommodate a 16-week semester schedule and to let you focus on just one chapter per week. New “see-and-say” drug pronunciations, word part and meaning boxes, and enhanced activities help you engage with and retain the material.

Accessible organization of drugs and drug categories

• Every chapter and each appendix has been updated to include the most current generic and trade name drugs, drug categories, and drug information available — right up to the date of publication.
• A-Z Drug Reference at the end of the text provides the most up-to-date data on generic and trade name drugs, indications for use, drug forms, strengths/doses, and “see-and-say” pronunciations for each drug listed.
• Some chapter material has been combined, for a new total of 15 chapters, to better accommodate a 16-week semester schedule. The remaining chapter material has been moved to an expanded list of appendices.

Learning tools

• This edition has more illustrations and photographs of real drugs. The images picture drug forms, drug packages, drug labels, and drugs being administered to patients, adding realism to the learning experience.
• “See-and-say” drug pronunciations are now included after every generic drug in the chapters and appendices. The A–Z Drug Reference includes both the generic drug and trade name drug pronunciations.
• Word part and meaning boxes are new to this edition. They helps students see how a complex word can be broken down into its word parts and meanings, deepening their understanding of medical terminology.
• New drug words and phrases appear at the start of each chapter and appendix, including the terms biologic drugs, COVID-19 vaccine, prescription drug monitoring programs, and recombinant DNA technology.

Chapter-ending review

• Clinical Applications, updated for this edition, relate content to patient and clinical situations. They are supplemented by job-skill exercises such as interpreting handwritten prescriptions, identifying drug forms and labels, connecting diseases to drug category, and evaluating excerpts from medical case histories.
• Critical thinking questions, updated with new material, get students thinking discriminately about complex pharmaceutical decisions.
• Quiz Yourself questions at the end of each chapter test students’ retention of the chapter content. The questions now reflect new material.
• Chapter-ending review has been expanded to include additional types of questions: matching, true or false, and fill in the blank.