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This Pharmacotherapeutics Test Bank is an ideal study tool for nursing students pursuing advanced practice nursing, offering targeted content on the latest drug therapies, management of acute and chronic illnesses, and guidelines for safe prescribing. Prepare efficiently and confidently with this must-have resource for your advanced nursing education and clinical decision-making skills.

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This comprehensive Nursing School Success Bundle is a must-have for aspiring and current nursing students. It includes detailed notes across key areas of nursing, such as Fundamentals, Med-Surg, Pharmacology, OB/Maternity, Pediatrics, and more. The bundle covers essential topics like medical terminology, nursing ethics, infection control, patient safety, lab values, dosage calculations, critical care, and therapeutic communication. It also dives into specialized systems, including respiratory, cardiac, neuro, GI, renal, endocrine, and musculoskeletal systems, along with hematology, immune system, mental health, and pharmacology. With this all-inclusive resource, you’ll gain clarity on crucial concepts, from anatomy and pathophysiology to clinical procedures, medication administration, and patient care. Perfectly organized for success in nursing school and beyond, this bundle ensures you’re well-prepared for exams and practical application in the field.

Lehne’s Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants, 2nd Editionbuilds on the same foundation of clearly explained, up-to-date, and clinically current content as the trusted Lehne undergraduate text, while focusing on the information that advanced practice nurses and Physician Assistants specifically need for safe and effective prescribing. 

Three introductory chapters provide foundational content for new prescribers in the areas of prescriptive authority, rational dru g selection, prescription writing, and promoting positive outcomes of dru g therapy. 

Core dru g chapters are focused on the dru gs that prescribers will most commonly see in clinical practice. A sharp focus is also placed on pharmacotherapeutic decision-making, with Black Box Warnings and new bulleted Key Prescribing Considerations features. 

The second edition features completely new chapters on Genetic and Genomic Considerations, Muscarinic Antagonists and Immunomodulators, and updated content throughout. It’s everything advanced practice nursing and Physician Assistant students need to be safe and effective prescribers!

Highly readable and rich with engaging case studies and learning tools, Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition delivers the complete nursing foundation students need in a format designed for the way they like to learn. This approachable text is accompanied by callouts, questions, and vignettes to help students explore essential patient care practices in real-world terms and gain a more practical understanding of how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in practice.

Trusted by instructors, students, and practicing nurses for more than 50 years, the 14th edition of this landmark resource has been comprehensively updated to reflect the latest research and practices and keep pace with the transition from critical care to home care, ethics, and genetics. Complete integration with Lippincott CoursePoint allows you to easily map out your entire course, provide personalized student remediation, and simulate real-world nursing scenarios based directly on vignettes in the text, giving your students unparalleled preparation for success in the medical-surgical nursing workforce.

Key Features in the 14th Edition:

• New New chapter on assessment and management of patients with obesity including expanded content on gastric and duodenal disorders.
• New Interdisciplinary feature in every chapter. Nursing students should be educated in an environment that provides such interdisciplinary educational experiences based on mutual understanding and respect and designed to enhance the practice of each discipline.
• EXPANDED Immunodeficiency chapter includes updated HIV infection and AIDS content.
• UPDATED The following units have been revised Immunologic Function, Digestive and Gastrointestinal Function, and Metabolic and Endocrine Function.
• Concept Mastery Alerts clarify difficult concepts, informed by data from Misconception Alert questions in PrepU for Brunner & Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 12e.
• Quality and Safety Nursing Alerts build upon previous edition’s Nursing Alerts to highlight issues related to quality and safety nursing care.
• Prioritization Questions have been added to the Critical Thinking Exercises .
• Genetics Charts and Ethical Dilemma Charts have been revised to reflect the latest advances in the field.
• Critical care information has been updated to further the authors’ goal to have the most up-to-date and clinically relevant content on critical care throughout the book.
• The Table of Contents has been reorganized for a more logical sequence and flow.
• Nursing Process sections, Plans of Nursing Care, and Critical Care sections
• More than 2,900 NCLEX-style review questions
• Assessment Charts, Risk Factor Charts, Guidelines Charts, Genetics in Nursing Practice Charts, Patient Education Charts, Health Promotion Charts, Ethics and Related Issues Charts, and Pharmacology Charts and tables.
• Gerontologic Considerations sections, Physiology/Pathophysiology figures, and updated Home Care Checklists

Nursing Research Profiles and EBP questions help students learn the importance of evidence-based practice.

• Concepts in Action Animations bring anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology concepts to life.

Written by nurse practitioners for nurse practitioners in collaboration with a physician, this popular text is unique to the Advanced Practice Nurse’s role. It offers a solid understanding of the theoretical foundation of everything Primary Care. Its comprehensive and easy-to-follow presentation examines the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of every body system across the life span.

Gain the pharmacology knowledge and skills you need to administer medications safely! Pharmacology and the Nursing Process, 10th Edition provides practical, easy-to-use pharmacology information, emphasizing the application of the nursing process and prioritization throughout the book. Coverage begins with pharmacology basics, then discusses dru-gs by body systems and dru-g functions. Hundreds of full-color illustrations show how dru gs work in the body and depict key steps in medication administration. Written by pharmacology experts Linda Lane Lilley, Shelly Rainforth Collins, and Julie S. Snyder, this bestselling textbook makes it easy to understand and apply pharmacology concepts and provide safe, quality nursing care.

• Focus on need-to-know information includes discussions of what nurses may encounter during dru g administration in a variety of health care settings, providing accounts of real-life medication errors and tips for avoiding those errors.
• The Nursing Process is applied to each category of dru gs, ensuring that you administer medications accurately and safely, and includes the steps of assessment, human need statements, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Emphasis on dru g classes describes key similarities and differences among the dru gs in each class, making it easier to understand how individual dru gs work in the body.
• Consistent presentation for each dru g group includes the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, adverse effects, interactions, and dosages, concluding with dru g profiles of individual drugs in the class or group.
• High-alert icons identify medications that pose a greater risk to patient safety.
• Focus on prioritization includes prioritized nursing diagnoses along with a corresponding prioritization of goals and outcomes, to help you learn to connect nursing diagnoses with goals and outcomes.
• Ease of readability makes difficult content more understandable.
• Photo atlas features more than 100 drawings and photographs showing dru g administration techniques.
• Dosages tables summarize generic and trade names, pharmacologic class, normal dosage ranges, and indications for the dru gs.
• Learning features at the beginning of each chapter include objectives and key terms, and at the end of each chapter, key points, critical thinking questions, review questions, and a list of resources available on the Evolve website.
• QSEN coverage includes the use of human need theory with human need statements, case studies featuring collaboration and teamwork content, Preventing Medication Errors boxes, and a discussion of the QSEN initiative as it relates to the safety and quality of patient care.
• NEW! Updated dru g content reflects the latest FDA dru g approvals, withdrawals, and therapeutic uses, and includes updated nursing content.

Learn the concepts and skills and develop the clinical judgment you need to provide excellent nursing care! Fundamentals of Nursing, 11th Edition prepares you to succeed as a nurse by providing a solid foundation in critical thinking, clinical judgment, nursing theory, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care in all settings. With illustrated, step-by-step guidelines, this book makes it easy to learn important skills and procedures.

Care plans are presented within a nursing process framework that is coordinated with clinical judgement, and case studies show how to apply concepts to nursing practice. From an expert author team led by Patricia Potter and Anne Perry, this bestselling nursing textbook helps you develop the understanding and clinical judgment you need to succeed in the classroom and in your career.

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Includes the following:

FUNDAMENTALS:
-Medical Terms & Abbreviations + Suffixes/ Prefixes + Banned Abbreviations
-Healthcare Delivery System
-Nursing Ethics & Law
-The Nursing Process (ADPIE)
-Infection Prevention (HAI’s, Types of Immunity, Chain of Infection & Stages of Infection)
-Infection Control (Types of Precautions, Donning & Doffing, 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene & Medical vs. Surgical Asepsis)
-Safety (Patient Safety, Restraints, Fire Safety, Nurse Safety)
-Scope of Practice & Delegation
-Prioritization
-Vital Signs
-Head to Toe Assessment
-Lab Values Cheat Sheet
-Lab Values Memory Tricks
-Electrolyte Imbalances (Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphate)
-Dosage Calculation (Rules & Formulas)
-Blood Transfusions
-Medication Administration
-IV Line Management (Peripheral Lines & Central Lines)
-IV Therapy Basics (ICF vs. ECF, Diffusion vs. Osmosis, Colloids vs. Crystalloids)
-IV Fluid Therapy (Hypertonic, Isotonic, Hypotonic)
-IV Therapy Complications
-Pressure Injuries
-Skin Overview (Functions, Types of Lesions, Edema, Skin color & tugor)
-Ambulation Devices (Scale Interpretation, Crutches, Walker, Cane)
-Patient Positioning & Anatomical Planes
-Urinary Elimination (Incontinence, Types of Catheters & Catheter Care)
-Bowel Elimination (Diagnostics, Constipation, Education)
-Nutrition Basics (Macro vs. Micronutrients)
-Nutrition Basics: Macronutrients (Carbs, Proteins, Fats, Cholesterol)
-Nutrition Basics: Micronutrients (Vitamins & Minerals)
-Enteral vs. Parenteral Nutrition
-Ostomies (Stool & Urine Diversions + Pouch & Stoma Care)
-Oxygenation (Breathing Patterns, Lung Sounds, Hypoxia, Oxygen Delivery Devices)
-Pain Management (Types of Pain, Pain Management Methods)
-Therapeutic Communication
-Thermoregulation (Hyperthermia vs. Hypothermia + Malignant Hyperthermia)
-Perioperative care (Phases, Nurse Responsibilities, Types of Surgery)

NEURO:
-Nervous System Overview
-Neuro Assessment
-Cranial Nerves
-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
-Alzheimer’s Disease
-Delirium
-Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
-Guillain-Barre Syndrome
-Encephalopathy
-Fibromyalgia
-Hydrocephalus
-Increased ICP
-Meningitis
-Multiple Sclerosis
-Myasthenia Gravis
-Parkinson’s Disease
-Seizures
-Spinal Cord Injury
-Traumatic Brain Injury
-Ventricular Drains (EVD vs. VP Shunt)

RESPIRATORY:
-Respiratory Overview
-Respiratory Assessment
-Arterial Blood Gas Basics (Memory trick + Interpreting ABG’s)
-ABG’s: Respiratory Acidosis vs. Respiratory Alkalosis
-ABG’s: Metabolic Acidosis vs. Metabolic Alkalosis
-Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
-Asthma
-Chest Tubes
-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
-Pneumothorax vs. Hemothorax
-Pleural Effusion vs. Pulmonary Edema
-Pneumonia
-Pulmonary Embolism
-Tuberculosis
-Upper Respiratory Disorders

CARDIAC:
-Cardiac System Overview (Chambers of the Heart, Layers of the Heart, Cardiac Output & Terms)
-Cardiac Functioning (Blood Flow through the Heart, Conduction System)
-Cardiac Assessment
-EKG Basics & Interpretation
-Cardiac Rhythms (Sinus Arrhythmias, SVT, Afib/ aflutter, Junctional Rhythms, PVC’s vs PAC’s, Vfib, Vtach, Asystole, Defibrillation vs Cardioversion, Heart Blocks)
-Coronary Artery Disease
-Angina Pectoris
-Myocardial Infarction
-Cardiac Tamponade
-Cardiomyopathy
-Infective Endocarditis
-Heart Failure
-Hypertension
-Peripheral Artery Disease vs Peripheral Vascular Disease (PAD vs. PVD)

MUSCULOSKELETAL:
-Musculoskeletal System Overview
-Musculoskeletal Assessment
-Compartment Syndrome
-Degenerative Disc Disease
-Fractures
-Gout
-Osteoarthritis vs. Rheumatoid Arthritis (OA vs. RA)
-Osteomyelitis
-Osteoporosis

GASTROINTESTINAL (GI):
-GI System Overview
-GI System Assessment
-Cholecystitis
-Pancreatitis
-Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s vs. Ulcerative Colitis)
-Diverticulitis vs. Diverticulosis
-GERD vs. Gastritis vs. Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD)
-Gastrointestinal Bleed (Upper vs. Lower GI Bleed)
-Hepatitis
-Cirrhosis
-Acute Liver Failure
-Bowel Obstruction

RENAL/ URINARY:
-Renal System Overview
-Urinary Assessment
-Acute Kidney Injury
-Chronic Kidney Disease
-Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
-Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
-Glomerulonephritis
-Nephrotic Syndrome
-Renal Calculi
-Hemodialysis
-Peritoneal Dialysis

ENDOCRINE:
-Endocrine System Overview
-Hormone Functions
-Addison’s vs. Cushing’s
-Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 vs. Types 2 Diabetes)
-Hypoglycemia vs. Hyperglycemia
-Diabetic Ketoacidosis vs. Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Syndrome (DKA vs. HHNS)
-Hypoparathyroidism vs. Hyperparathyroidism
-Hypothyroidism vs. Hyperthyroidism
-Diabetes Insipidus vs. Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (DI vs. SIADH)
-Pheochromocytoma

HEMATOLOGY:
-Hematology Overview
-Types of Anemia
-Sickle Cell Anemia
-Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
-Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
-Hemophilia
-Thrombocytopenia

IMMUNE:
-Immune System Overview
-Cancer Overview
-Types of Cancer
-Cancer Treatments & Complications
-Leukemia
-Lymphoma
-Multiple Myeloma
-Polycythemia
-HIV/ AIDS
-Lyme’s Disease
-Psoriasis vs. Eczema
-Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

CRITICAL CARE:
-ACLS vs. BLS Cheat Sheet
-Arterial Lines
-Mechanical Ventilation Basics
-Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
-Shock Overview
-Types of Shock: Hypovolemic vs. Cardiogenic vs. Obstructive
-Types of Shock: Anaphylactic vs. Septic vs. Neurogenic (Distributive Shocks)
-Sepsis
-Burns Overview
-Burn Care Phases & Fluid Resuscitation (Parkland Formula & Rule of 9’s)
-Trauma & Emergency Care
-Disaster Triage
-Dr ug Overdose & Poisoning
-Organ Donation

MENTAL HEALTH:
-Mental Health Overview
-Mental State Examination
-Types of Therapy
-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
-Aggression & Abuse
-Anxiety
-Autism Spectrum Disorder
-Bipolar Disorder
-Depression
-Eating Disorders
-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
-Personality Disorders
-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
-Schizophrenia
-Somatoform Disorders
-Substance Abuse Disorders

OB/MATERNITY:
-GTPAL & Maternity Terms
-Contraception Methods & Infertility
-Signs of Pregnancy & Naegele’s Rule
-Trimesters & Fetal Development
-Pregnancy Physiology
-Rh Incompatibility
-Placenta Previa
-Placental Abruption
-Ectopic Pregnancy
-Molar Pregnancy (Hydatidiform Mole)
-Spontaneous Abortion
-Infection Pregnancy Complications (HIV, STD’s, Group B Strep, TORCH Infections)
-Medical Pregnancy Complications (Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Gestational Diabetes, Gestational Hypertension & HELLP Syndrome)
-Stages of Labor
-True vs. False Labor
-5 P’s of Labor
-Fetal Positioning & Station
-Fetal Heart Tones
-Labor Complications (Cord Prolapse, Dystocia, Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid, Premature Rupture of Membranes, Precipitous Labor)
-Newborn Assessment
-Postpartum Assessment
-Postpartum Hemorrhage
-Newborn Care

PEDIATRICS:
-Pediatric CPR Cheat Sheet
-Pediatric Milestone (Infant & Toddler to Preschooler)
-Erikson’s Theory
-Piaget’s Stages of Development
-Pediatric Vaccine Schedule
-Pediatric Vital Signs
-Communicable Diseases
-Spina Bifida
-Bronchiolitis
-Croup
-Epiglotittis
-Otitis Media
-Cystic Fibrosis
-Kawasaki Disease
-Reye’s Syndrome
-Scarlet Fever
-Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-Febrile Seizures
-Cerebral Palsy
-Phenylketonuria (PKU)
-Muscular Dystrophy (Becker vs. Duchenne)
-Developmental Hip Dysplasia
-Congenital Heart Defects (Tetrology of Fallot, Tricupid Atresia, ASD, VSD, PDA, Aortic Stenosis, Pulmonary Stenosis, Coarction of Aorta, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Transposition of Great Arteries, Truncus Arteriosis)
-Cleft Lip & Palate
-Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
-Intussusception
-Hirschsprung Disease (Congenital Aganglionic Megacolon)

PHARMACOLOGY:
-Prefixes & Suffixes
-Therapeuutic Levels & Antidotes
-Emergency Meds
-Anticonvulsants
-Anticholinergic vs. Cholinergics
-Bronchodilators (Beta-2 Agonists, Anticholinergics, Methylxanthines)
-Respiratory Anti-inflammatory Agents (Steroids, Leukotriene Modifers, Mast Cell Stabilizers)
-Secretion & Allergy Management (Expectorants, Mucolytics, Decongestants, Antihistamines)
-Cardiac Pharm Overview (Adrenergic Receptors & Cardiac Output)
-Adrenergic Blockers (Alpha Blockers & Beta Blockers)
-RAAS Inhibitors (ACE Inhibitors & ARBs)
-Cardiotonic Agents (Digoxin, Milrinone, Dobutamine, Dopamine)
-Vasodilators (Calcium Channel Blockers, Nitrates, Hydralazine)
-Antihyperlipidemics (Statins, Bile Acid Resins, Fibrates)
-Diuretics (Loop, Thiazide, Potassium Sparing, Osmotic)
-Anticoagulants (Heparin, Warfarin, Direct Oral Anticoagulants)
-Vasopressors (Norepinephrine, Phenylephrine, Epinephrine, Vasopressin)
-Acid Suppressing Agents (Antacids, H2 Blockers, Proton Pump Inhibitors, Mucosal Protectant aka Sucralfate)
-Antibiotics (Penicillins, Cephalosporins, Glycopeptides, Macrolides, Aminoglycosides, Tetracyclines, Lincosamides, Sulfonamides, Fluoroquinolones, Antiprotozoals, Nitrofurans)
-Immunosuppressants
-Non-opioid Analgesics
-Opioid Analgesics
-Mood Stabilizers
-Antidepressants (SSRI’s, SNRI’s, MAOI’s, TCA’s)
-Anxiolytics ( Benzodiazepines, Barbiturates, Buspirone)
-Antipsychotics (Typicals vs Atypicals)
-Types of Insulin