What nursing drug book do you like?

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Specializes in CVSICU, Cardiac Cath Lab.

Oops! I forgot to buy one and now it's care plan time. So before I shell out bigtime bucks, what book do you like, and why?

TIA!

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Specializes in LTC.

I bought a book called "The Pill book" last week. Just for the hell of it.

I wish I had this during nursing school. It is very very easy to read and follow. I think its better than any drug book I ever used during nursing school. It is geared towards household but I look up some of my patients meds and its written in nursing language too.. Excellent and easy to understand.

$7.50 at borders... same price on amazon

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My Nursing 2005 edition of LWW nurses Drug Handbook. My first one was this book, and I've been getting them ever since, at about 5 year intervals. I am due for a new one. I just like the way it is set up. Looked at others, but I still like this one better.

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The Mosby's drug guide-- it has nursing considerations in it like assess for low pulse before giving the med, etc. - Things you would not get from a regular pharm book.

The other resource I use a LOT is epocrates.com. It's free and lot of doctors use it. It has cross checks between drugs with explanations, pharmacology info, and dosing info among other things. I have this on my ipod touch and use it during clinicals to quickly look up drugs. I also have loaded an app for medical spanish that I have used with patients a couple of times.

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Not a nurse, but have always owned a nursing drug book.

I seem to be a Mosby's fanatic since my first Mosby's nursing drug reference guide.

Now I always trust them for the best publications, and if I'm ever unsure of what to go with, I go with Mosby's.

I want to check out Davis's now, though.

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele.

I love my Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing Drug Handbook, its from 2008 & I still use it all the time.

It is written in easy to use language, with nursing considerations as well as pt teaching areas. It has all the adverse reactions, effects on lab values, drug/drug interactions, etc. , displayed by easy to find headings.

I just love it!! And I have looked through a lot of others that I haven't liked the layout/info of as much (Mosby, Davis, to name a few)

The only downside to it, IMHO, is that the drugs are not listed in alphabetical order, they are in chapters by type of drug. So each time you want to look up a med, you have to find it in the index first, then go to the page #. Not a huge issue, but it is a hassle

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC.

I don't know if micromedex makes a book, but if they do I need to get it. I would always look stuff up on thier site until I lost access:( Loved it much beter than my LWW book.

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Personal favorite is for me is LWW's Springhouse Nurse's Drug Guide. What I have now is the 2008 version and I have used this series since the 2003 version. Really easy to understand. I'd love to use epocrates though, if and when I have an iPhone/Touch.

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