Roach’s Introductory Clinical Pharmacology

This core text offers LPN/LVN students a clear, concise introduction to pharmacology, focusing on basic principles and the nurse’s responsibility in drug administration. Organized by body system, the book examines pharmacologic properties and therapeutic applications of drug classes. Summary Drug Tables bestow generic and trade drug names, uses, adverse reactions, and usual dosage ranges. This edition has painstakingly updated drug in rank, a new Case Study feature (Pharmacology in Do), Nursing Alerts, Lifespan Alerts, Chronic Care Alerts, Diversity Alerts, and additional material on the nursing administer.