Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety 3rd Edition By Edition By Linda Workman, Linda LaCharity
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Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety (3rd Edition) by M. Linda Workman and Linda A. LaCharity focuses on simplifying complex drug concepts and emphasizing practical clinical safety. The core material is structurally organized into fundamental concepts, mathematical reviews, and clinical drug categories grouped by body systems. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Unit I: General Aspects of Pharmacology
  • Drug Therapy Roles and Regulations: Professional nursing roles, legal frameworks, and ethical guidelines.
  • Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Mechanisms of drug actions, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
  • Safe Medication Administration: Principles of preparing, documenting, and administering drugs safely to prevent clinical errors. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Unit II: Mathematics Review and Dosage Calculations
  • Systems of Weights and Measures: Apothecary, metric, and household measurement conversions.
  • Dosage Calculations: Mathematical formulas for solid orals, liquid orals, and basic parenteral medications.
  • Intravenous (IV) Solutions: Flow rates, drop factors, and complex clinical calculations for continuous or intermittent infusions. [1, 2]
Unit III: Anti-Infective and Immune System Medications
  • Antibacterial Drugs: Mechanics and nursing considerations for common cell wall, protein, and metabolism inhibitors.
  • Antiviral and Antifungal Agents: Therapies targeting viral replication and systemic fungal infections.
  • Cancer Chemotherapy: Cytotoxic medications, targeted clinical therapies, and strict healthcare worker safety protocols. [1]
Unit IV: Medications for the Nervous System
  • Central Nervous System Drugs: Therapeutics for treating depression, anxiety, psychoses, and progressive neurological conditions like Parkinson's disease.
  • Pain Management: Non-opioid analgesics, opioid agonists, and local or general anesthetic agents.
  • Anti-seizure Medications: Drugs used to control neurological overactivity and epilepsy.
Unit V: Cardiovascular and Renal System Medications
  • Antihypertensives: ACE inhibitors, ARBs, beta-blockers, and calcium channel blockers.
  • Heart Failure and Dysrhythmia Therapeutics: Inotropic agents, vasodilators, and rhythm-stabilizing medications.
  • Renal and Blood Agents: Diuretics, anticoagulants, antiplatelets, and thrombolytic agents.
Unit VI: Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, and Endocrine Systems
  • Pulmonary Therapies: Bronchodilators, anti-inflammatory inhalers, and mucolytics.
  • Gastrointestinal Drugs: Antacids, H2 blockers, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), laxatives, and antiemetics.
  • Endocrine Medications: Insulin, oral antidiabetics, thyroid hormone replacements, and antithyroid preparations.
Core Cross-Cutting Learning Themes
  • Life Span Considerations: Distinct drug physiological behaviors across pediatric, geriatric, and pregnant populations.
  • Clinical Judgment Focus: Integration of critical thinking indicators to prepare students for current Next Generation NCLEX licensing requirements. [1, 2, 3]

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Anti-Infective and Immune System Medications anti-inflammatory inhalers and mucolytics. Anti-seizure Medications: Drugs used to control neurological overactivity and epilepsy. Antibacterial Drugs: Mechanics and nursing considerations for common cell wall Antihypertensives: ACE inhibitors ARBs beta-blockers Antiviral and Antifungal Agents Cancer Chemotherapy: Cytotoxic medications targeted clinical therapies Cardiovascular and Renal System Medications Central Nervous System Drugs Clinical Judgment Focus: Integration of critical thinking Core Cross-Cutting Learning Themes Dosage Calculations: Mathematical formulas for solid orals liquid orals Drug Therapy Roles and Regulations: Professional nursing roles Endocrine Medications: Insulin oral antidiabetics Gastrointestinal Drugs: Antacids H2 blockers General Aspects of Pharmacology Heart Failure and Dysrhythmia Therapeutics: Inotropic agents Intravenous (IV) Solutions: Flow rates drop factors Life Span Considerations: Distinct drug physiological behaviors Mathematics Review and Dosage Calculations Medications for the Nervous System Pain Management: Non-opioid analgesics opioid agonists Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Mechanisms of drug Pulmonary Therapies: Bronchodilators Renal and Blood Agents: Diuretics anticoagulants Respiratory Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Systems Safe Medication Administration Systems of Weights and Measures: Apothecary metric
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