Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses

Includes 2024 updates - 5,000 trade & generic drugs, built-in dosage calculators

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses - 2024 Edition

"Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses" is a comprehensive Android app that offers detailed monographs for over 5,000 trade and generic drugs, built-in dosage calculators, and critical safety information for administering medications across all patient age groups. Updated for 2024, it includes FDA news, audio pronunciations, high alert medication details, and guidelines for special populations, ensuring user-friendly access to life-saving drug knowledge for nursing professionals.
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Version: 3.10.3 (Last updated: 2024-11-25)
Creation date: 2016-06-10
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Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses® (DrugGuide™), delivers all the information you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs for hundreds of generic and thousands of trade-name drugs.

HIGHLIGHTS
* Search the complete 5,000-drug database and appendices quickly & efficiently.
* Build your knowledge with extensively cross-referenced drugs.
* Keep up to date with FDA drug news.
* Audio pronunciations for almost 890 generic drugs
* Over 700 built-in drug dosing calculation tools. Simply review a drug, calculate the dose and administer all in a single step without needing to switch to a separate drug dosing program.

Comprehensive coverage on over 1,400 drug monographs including more than:
* 5,000 trade and generic drugs as well as expanded coverage of herbal products
* 150 drug classifications, both therapeutic and pharmacologic (if available)
* 500 commonly used combination drugs, including the dosage amount of the active generic ingredient
* Most complete life-span drug dosing considerations for adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients

LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE ... AT A GLANCE
* New! The AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

#1 Drug Guide for patient safety-More High Alert Coverage and Patient Safety Information than any other drug guide including:
* Special highlights to identify High Alert Medications with high risks for patient injury and information throughout the monograph that explain what the nurse can do to ensure patient safety
* "Do not confuse with" and "Do not crush, break, or chew" caution statements highlighted to support safe practice
* Information on how to prevent administration errors, detect dosing and dispensing errors, and detect or prevent adverse drug reactions (ADR)s.
* Explanations on how to administer medication safely by all routes – including signs and symptoms for toxicity and overdose, safe handling tips, and how to educate patients for safe medication use in the home
* High alert medications - in-depth high alert and patient safety coverage
* Red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects
* REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
* Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-natural product interactions
* Special considerations for patient populations.
* Geri heading identifies special concerns for older adults.
* OB and Lact headings highlight information for pregnant and breastfeeding patients.
* Pedi heading identifies concerns for children.
* Rep heading identifies considerations for patients of reproductive age.
* IV Administration subheads
* Pharmacogenomic content
* Canadian-specific content
* In-depth guidance for patient and family teaching
* NDC (National Drug Code) for 1300+ Monographs.

Content licensed from printed edition ISBN 10: 171964005X. ISBN 13: 9781719640053

SUBSCRIPTION :
Please purchase a yearly auto-renewing subscription to receive content access and available updates.

Yearly auto-renewing payments- $38.99

Payment will be charged to your mode of payment you select at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal can be disabled at any time by going to your App “Settings” and tapping “Manage Subscriptions”. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable.

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Authors: April Hazard Vallerand Ph.D., RN, FAAN; Cynthia A. Sanoski BS, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS
Publisher: F.A. Davis
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User reviews

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Pros
  • Very informative and beneficial for healthcare workers.
  • Easy to look up information and has all the info needed for nursing school.
  • User-friendly interface, especially for nursing students.
  • Well-organized medication information with helpful features like notes and recordings.
  • Quick reference for drug information, highly useful in practice.
Cons
  • Requires a subscription to access most of the content.
  • Some users report bugs and issues with app functionality.
  • Not a free app, which can be misleading for some users.
Most mentioned
  • Very informative and beneficial for healthcare workers.
  • Requires a subscription to access most of the content.
  • User-friendly interface, especially for nursing students.
User reviews
It's payable if u looking for free please don't install this aap
by Pritam K, 2024-10-26

Very informative and beneficial for doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
by Jawad Ibrar, 2024-08-02

Its not working..saying that it has a bug. I dont understand
by Lucy Wanjiku, 2024-06-07
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