The Jones & Bartlett Learning 2020 Nurse’s Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference. Updated annually, it provides accurate and timely facts on hundreds of drugs from A-Z. Written in a no-nonsense style that speaks your language in terms you use every day, it offers concise and consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically.

• Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names
• Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category, and controlled substance schedule
• Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information
• Incompatibilities and contraindications
• Interactions with drugs, food, and activities
• Adverse reactions
• Nursing considerations, including key teaching points for patients
• Mechanism-of-action illustrations
• Warnings and precautions
• Updated antineoplastic drug therapy appendix
• Addition of bolded Life-Threatening Adverse Reactions (ADRs)

New drugs added to the 2020 Nurse's Drug Handbook include: PEGlated-auci jivi, baloxavir marboxil, baricitinib, inactivated-zhzo, didanosine, doravirine, Eravacycline, erenumab-aooe, fremanezumab-vfrm, frovatriptan, galcanezumab-gnlm, ganiciclovir, ibalizumab-uiyk, lofexidine, lubiprostone, omadacycline, plazomicin, revefenacin,rifamycin, saquinavir, sarecycline, semaglutide, sodium zirconium cyclosilicate, sufentanil, tildrakizumab-asmn