Medications: A Guide for the Health Professions (Paperback)

Medications: A Guide for the Health Professions Book Description

-- Thoroughly updated, this competency-based book offers a fresh approach for students learning pharmacology by moving from simple skills to increasingly more complex ones
-- Focuses on the skills and knowledge expected of the entry-level professional in the primary care ambulatory setting
-- Uses single formula for dosages and calculations throughout the text and in the review questions
-- The text conveys simply and clearly how to administer medications safely and under the direction of the physician, and how to help teach patients to administer medications to themselves
-- Covers the 50 most commonly prescribed drugs and the drugs routinely administered in the clinical setting
-- Uses an activities-oriented, competency-based approach that emphasizes understanding rather than rote memorization

About the Author :

Karen Lane has contributed to Medications: A Guide for the Health Professions as an author. Dan Jones is the Coordinator for the B.A. and M.A. Programs in technical communication in the English Department at the University of Central Florida. He has taught a variety of technical communication courses for the past 21 years and has done consulting for more than 20 companies including AT&T, IBM, Westinghouse, and Lockheed Martin. Dan is the editor of an anthology of essays, "Defining Technical Communication," published in 1996 by the Society for Technical Communication, and the author of two other textbooks published by Longman: T"he Technical Communicator's Handbook "and "Technical Wr

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