I hate my pharm book!!!

Have you tried a Davis Drug Guide? It has everything you're looking for and there is an iPad app.

Google search. Seriously, there are a lot of different drug guide books, and if you want to find one you like, look into it on your own. Most of them are fairly similar, but vary in price. And there are several with iPod/iPad apps as well.

use your pharm book for studying for class, but get a drug guide to help you out in clinicals. I use Micromedex, if you have a smart phone (I have a Droid) it is a free app, and is legit, as it is what many hospitals purchase to have available for staff.

Davis drug guide is amazing!

Thank you for your suggestions! And compassion_x, I agree but I wanted to hear feedback to help narrow it down through the thoughts and experience of others.

For school I ditched the textbook and got pharmacology made in credibly easy. Broke it down into English and the cartoons really helped me remember stuff

use your pharm book for studying for class, but get a drug guide to help you out in clinicals. I use Micromedex, if you have a smart phone (I have a Droid) it is a free app, and is legit, as it is what many hospitals purchase to have available for staff.

Micromedex is my favorite. I have the iPhone app very easy to use and just the basic info you need for each med. The hospital i have my clinical at (one of the top 5 US) also use it.

Micromedex is my favorite. I have the iPhone app very easy to use and just the basic info you need for each med. The hospital i have my clinical at (one of the top 5 US) also use it.

I have the newest Mosby's Drug Guide and I love it. Breaks everything up simply into the different headings and it has colour text in it so its not just blocks of black writing

I wanted to update this dinosaur thread in case anyone stumbles on it. I went with Mosby's Drug Guide for Nursing Students. I absolutely love this book. I also purchased it to go on my pageburst app, and that, I've decided, was a total waste because the app itself is horrendous. I'm so irritated with that app. So, I recommend the book, but if you're hoping to get it digitally, get it on a different platform than I did.

I also ditched my former book (Pearson's) and went with Mosby's. (I bought the 2013, but I notice that they now have out the 2014 edition).

Mosby's has a few things that are absolutely necessary to get through our particular courses. 1st, they have chemical classes (Pearson's did not), they also have all of the (to date) black box warnings. Also, they have either the antidote or supportive treatment (or both) in case of overdose. ALL OF THIS is information for which we are responsible in clinicals. (It also has info on supplements and immunizations).

It was difficult going with the previous book as one would have to google to try to find chemical names and black box warnings, etc. That could get pretty cumbersome along with myriad of additional clinical paperwork we are responsible for completing on the pt the night before clinical, particularly when you had a pt with 20 - 40 meds (which happens).

After a time, you do begin to build a decent bank of your own drug cards with all of the required info, but still, it's handy to have all the resource info in one spot from the get-go.

Prob the next thing I will purchase is an up to date IV drug book. Haven't figured out which would be best on that yet.