Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers [Hardcover]

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1376 pages


• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 3 edition (August 2, 2011)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 080362235X


• ISBN-13: 978-0803622357


• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 2.2 inches


• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  

Price : $111.88
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Customer Reviews

The book is a little pricey but well worth the investment. It really covers everything you need to prescribe safely and effectively. It is one of the few books that I have seen that includes cultrual and ethnic influences, nutrition therapy, complementary medicine, and OTC's all together. It also reviews drugs by body system, age category, gender and multidrug therapy. This book allows you to get all your information in one place. It also covers legal and professional issues and prescribing unique to the Nurse Practitioner role. It has lots of tables packed with information and even comes with a CD-ROM. A great book for the student NP, newly practicing NP or even the experienced NP. I highly recommend this book.

I purchased this book for a graduate pharmacology course. This textbook does present useful and practical information for the future nurse practitioner. The book has a more "real world" and practical bent than many pharmacology textbooks. The clinical pearls presented in the book are very good. Furthermore, the book addresses clinically relevant rationales for the prescription of one drug versus another, and also addresses cost of treatment.
However, information in the book is organized in an appalling manner. Information about specific drugs is often sprinkled about the chapter in such a disorganized and illogical fashion. My classmates and I find that we must take extensive notes while reading a chapter in order to have information about a specific drug all in one place. Otherwise, one must hunt and peck throughout the chapter when studying or reviewing a specific drug. And then, on the other hand, some information is simply repeated in different areas of the chapter. This textbook is the most poorly organized book that I have ever used in either my undergraduate or graduate studies.
The level of editing in this textbook is also appalling. At times, it is difficult to tell that the authors have moved on to a new subject so one must re-read the passage to make sure one is not confusing information about one drug with that of another. The sentences in the book are also sometimes confusing due to poor construction and improper use of pronouns. At times, the writing is just flat out poor, and is barely up to the quality that is expected of an undergraduate paper.
Avoid, avoid, avoid this book if you can. I don't usually take the time to review textbooks, but this book was such a disappointment that I felt compelled to warn others away from it.