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New eBook: Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses (2023)

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Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses provides comprehensive, up-to-date drug information in well-organized, nursing-focused monographs. It also includes extensive supplemental material in 14 appendices, thoroughly addresses the issue of safe medication administration, and educates the reader about 50 different therapeutic classes of drugs.

The 18th edition now includes Medication Safety Tools and even more information about health care’s most vulnerable patients: children, the elderly, pregnant women, and breast feeding mothers. More pharmacogenomic information has been added throughout numerous monographs to guide the nurse in selecting and monitoring various drug therapies.

New Databases: AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery

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The library now subscribes to two comprehensive resources, AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery. 

AccessMedicine provides more than 100 medical reference textbooks, ranging from surgery and pharmacology to basic and clinical sciences. It includes frequently updated content with thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, case files, diagnostic tools, and more. Textbooks include Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (21st edition), Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology (12th edition), and Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (14th edition).

AccessSurgery is a comprehensive online surgery resource aimed to enhance medical knowledge and deliver quick answers to surgical inquiries. AccessSurgery provides access to leading surgical textbooks (including Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations), instructional surgical videos and animations that show step-by-step how to perform basic and advanced surgical procedures, an Interactive Board Review designed to help residents and clerks prepare for exams, an integrated drug database to look up dosing, indications, and adverse reactions, and a Clerkship Corner that brings together all clerkship specific resources, including text references, case files, and videos on essential concepts and procedures clerks may observe or assist in during their rotation.

New eBook: Lippincott Nursing Procedures, 9th Edition

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The MSK Library now has the 2023 updated version of Lippincott Nursing Procedures. This reference guide contains more than 400 entries with detailed, evidence-based guidance on procedures ranging from the most basic patient care to assisting with intricate surgeries. The alphabetical organization allows you to quickly lookup any procedure by name, and benefit from the clear, concise, step-by-step direction of nursing experts. 

Lippincott Nursing Procedures provides full-color photos and diagrams that illustrate procedure steps, practices based on clinical evidence, and procedures presented in a structured how-to format.