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The Jones & Bartlett Learning 2020 Nurse's Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.The 2020 Nurse's Drug Handbook includes:* Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names* Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedule* Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information* Incompatibilities and contraindications* Interactions with drugs, food, and activities* Adverse reactions* Nursing considerations, including key teaching points for patients* Mechanism-of-action illustrations* Warnings and precautions* Updated antineoplastic drug therapy appendix* Addition of bolded Life-Threatening Adverse Reactions (ADRs)