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Here’s the in-depth information you need to be a safe and effective prescriber of medications.

This exceptional text builds your knowledge of pharmacology by first providing an overview of pharmacologic principles and then teaching you how to apply those principles to clinical practice. Focusing on applying pharmacologic scientific knowledge to clinical practice, it explains diagnostic and treatment reasoning and rational drug selection, while providing useful clinical pearls from experienced practitioners. The use of a Rational Drug Selection process enables you to understand how to prescribe the right drug...for the right patient...at the right time!

Updated to reflect the most recent scientific knowledge and clinical practice in the field, the 3rd Edition provides the same great content from the first two editions with even more of what you need.

• The only text that meets all AACN/NONPF criteria.
• Clinical Pearls, insights from expert practitioners on how to increase patient compliance, analyze potential drug interactions, and improve treatment selection reasoning.
• Case Studies illustrating the paradigm drug and select common uses for each class of drugs.
• Tips on how to evaluate new drugs from the literature provided drug representatives.
• Discussions of the application of advanced pharmacotherapeutics to the real world of clinical practice.
• Coverage of pathophysiology as it relates the use of specific drugs.
• Easy-to-understand illustrations of drug physiology and how drugs work in the body.
• Tables that detail commonly used drugs, pharmacokinetics, drug/food interactions, dosage schedules, and available dosage forms.
• On the Horizon boxes highlighting potentially useful drugs currently in clinical trials.

• THE FOUNDATION
• The Role of the Nurse Practitioner as Prescriber
• Review of Basic Principles of Pharmacology
• Rational Drug Selection
• Legal and Professional Issues in Prescribing
• Adverse Drug Reactions
• Factors that Foster Positive Outcomes
• Cultural and Ethnic Influences in Pharmacotherapeutics
• Pharmacogenomics
• Nutritional Supplements and Nutraceuticals
• Herbal and Complementary Medicine
• Information Technology and Pharmacotherapeutics
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Over-the-Counter Medications

• PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS WITH SINGLE DRUGS
• Drugs Affecting the Autonomic Nervous System
• Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System
• Drugs Affecting the Cardiovascular and Renal Systems
• Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System
• Drugs Affecting the Hematopoietic System
• Drugs Affecting the Immune System
• Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal System
• Drugs Affecting the Endocrine System
• Drugs Affecting the Reproductive System
• Drugs Affecting the Integumentary System
• Drugs Used in Treating Infectious Diseases
• Drugs Used in Treating Inflammatory Processes
• Drugs Used in Treating Eye and Ear Disorders

• PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS WITH MUTLIPLE DRUGS
• Anemia
• Chronic Stable Angina and Low-Risk Unstable Angina
• Anxiety and Depression
• Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Contraception
• Dermatologic Conditions
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Gastroesophageal Reflux and Peptic Ulcer Disease
• Headaches
• Heart Failure
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease and Acquired Immunodefiency Syndrome
• Hormone Replacement Therapy and Osteoporosis
• Hyperlipidemia
• Hypertension
• Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism
• Pneumonia
• Smoking Cessation
• Sexually Transmitted Infections and Vaginitis
• Tuberculosis
• Upper Respiratory Infections: Otitis Media and Otitis Externa
• Urinary Tract Infections

• SPECIAL DRUG TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS
• Women as Patients
• Men as Patients
• Pediatric Patients
• Geriatric Patients
• Chronic Illness and Long-Term Care
• Pain Management: Acute & Chronic Pain

• Pharmacology, Teri Woo
• Two new chapters, Herbal Drug Therapy, reflecting the latest research on the use of herbal medicines, and Nutritional Supplements and Nutraceuticals, with evidence-based guidelines for their  use.
• Content on erectile dysfunction and prostate issuesin the Men as Patients chapter.
• Updated and expanded content on pharmacogenomics. 
• An herb-drug interaction section now in every chapter of Unit II and in the chapter on herbal drug therapy.