Textbook of Pharmacology for Nurses

The use of drugs and the observations of their effects on patients have always been important for the nurse. This importance has increased because of the potency and specificity of the agents now in common use. However, unless care is exercised, the amount of information presented in a volume for teaching or reference may be overwhelming. The authors of this book have avoided this common fault. The material is offered in an interesting style—brief but informative. At the end of each chapter is a list of questions by which the reader may estimate her knowledge. The contents are divided into twenty-nine chapters, separated into nine units: orientation to the study of pharmacology and therapeutics, drugs used for their local effects, drugs used chiefly for their effects on the nervous system, drugs used for their effect on the respiratory tract, drugs used for their effect on the circulation, drugs which affect