Nursing 2025 – 2026 Drug Handbook

THE #1 Drug Guide for nurses & other clinicians…always dependable, and always up to date!

Now in its 45th edition, Nursing 2025 – 2026 Drug Handbook delivers the most current nursing focused information on more than 3,600 generic, brand-name, and combination drugs in an easy-to-use A-Z format.

Brand new features added to this nursing drug handbook:

• NEW! Includes 24 brand-new FDA-approved drugs—tabbed and conveniently grouped in a handy “NEW DRUGS” section for easy retrieval
• NEW! Thousands of clinical updates—new dosages and indications, FDA boxed warnings, genetic-related information, adverse
  reactions, interactions, nursing considerations, clinical alerts, and patient teaching information
• Special focus on U.S. and Canadian drug safety issues and concerns
• Thoroughly updated appendices covering indications and dosages for numerous classes of drugs

Plus FREE additional resources available on Lippincott NursingCenter®:

• Monthly FDA updates and news
  • Newly approved drugs
  • New indications and dosages
  • Drug warnings
  • News abstracts
• Medication safety information
  • Types of medication errors, including causes and common errors
  • Preventing and reducing medication errors
  • Reporting medication errors
  • Real-life stories of medication errors

Additional features and benefits of this nursing drug handbook:

• Complete monographs on drugs focusing on key drug information nurses need to know:
  • Available forms
  • Indications & dosages (with dosage adjustments for special populations)
  • Administration (all applicable routes covered)
  • Mechanism of action
  • Adverse reactions
  • Interactions (drug-drug, drug-food, drug-lifestyle)
  • Effects on lab test results
  • Contraindications & cautions
  • Pregnancy-lactation-reproduction concerns
  • Nursing considerations
  • Patient Teaching
• Prominent logos for clinical alerts, FDA boxed warnings, overdose signs & symptoms, genetic implications, look alike-sound alike drugs
• Special tabbed section featuring New Drugs
• Handy appendices covering:
  • Drug safety and error prevention
  • Drug lists grouped by therapeutic class and other categories (antidiarrheals, antidotes, biologicals, laxatives, ophthalmics, vaccines, vitamins & minerals, OTCs, combination drugs, less commonly used drugs)
  • Drug schedules (U.S. and Canada)
  • Medication decision tree, drug monitoring guidelines
• Photoguide insert featuring 415 full-size pill images