3 Tools of Highly Effective Nursing Students
1. TABER'S 24 + TABER'S ONLINE
The all-in-one, go-to source for classroom, clinical, and beyond
Put the language and practice of nursing at your fingertips. A team of expert editors and consultants ensures that the content reflects today's most current and relevant information.
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- 75,000+ terms, detailed definitions, and full-color illustrations
- Patient Care statements (assessment, treatment, and patient teaching) and Caution/Safety statements
- Disease/Disorder entries (diagnosis, signs and symptoms, etiology, treatments, and prognosis)
- 2020-21 NANDA-I diagnoses
2. DAVIS'S CANADIAN DRUG GUIDE FOR NURSES, EIGHTEEN EDITION + DRUG GUIDE ONLINE
Safety first
Here's everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan--well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.
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- In-depth coverage patient safety, red tab for high-alert medications, red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects, and REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
- Special considerations for patient populations, including Geri, OB and Lact, Pedi, and Rep headings
- IV administration coverage
- In-depth patient and family teaching guidance
- Canadian-specific content
- Monographs on drugs approved for use in Canada that are not FDA-approved for use in the US
- Additional Canadian trade names for many US-approved generic drugs, identified by a maple leaf icon
- A summary of the similarities and differences between pharmaceutical practices in the US and Canada
- Canadian educators and reviewers
3. DAVIS'S COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK OF LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC TESTS WITH NURSING IMPLICATIONS, 9TH EDITION + FAST FIND ONLINE
The information nurses need...when, where, and how they need it!
Nursing-focused and easy-to-read, this full-color manual delivers all the information you need to understand how tests work, interpret their results, and provide quality patient care--pre-test, intra-test, and post-test.
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- "Potential Nursing Problems" tables summarizing present problems, signs and symptoms, and interventions related to the study
- "Common Use" for each monograph, an at-a-glance description of what the test is for, in everyday language that patients will understand
- Monographs that focus on what you need to do before, during, and after each laboratory and diagnostic test, including patient Teaching, patient safety, social and cultural issues, and nutritional considerations.
- Diagnostic imaging monographs with the reasons for the test result
- Pathophysiology information that explains why a lab test result is increased or decreased
- Reference ranges and interfering factors
