3 Tools of Highly Effective Nursing Students

1.   TABER’S 24 + TABER’S ONLINE

The all-in-one, go-to source for classroom, clinical, and beyond

Put the language and practice of nursing at your fingertips. A team of expert editors and consultants ensures that the content reflects today’s most current and relevant information.

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• 75,000+ terms, detailed definitions, and full-color illustrations
• Patient Care statements (assessment, treatment, and patient teaching) and Caution/Safety statements
• Disease/Disorder entries (diagnosis, signs and symptoms, etiology, treatments, and prognosis)
• 2020-21 NANDA-I diagnoses

2.   DAVIS’S DRUG GUIDE FOR NURSES, EIGHTEEN EDITION + DRUG GUIDE ONLINE

Safety first
Here’s everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names. 

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• In-depth coverage patient safety, red tab for high-alert medications, red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects, and REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
• Special considerations for patient populations, including Geri, OB and Lact, Pedi, and Rep headings
• IV administration coverage
• In-depth patient and family teaching guidance
• Canadian-specific content identified with a maple leaf icon

3.   DAVIS’S COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK OF LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC TESTS WITH NURSING IMPLICATIONS, 9TH EDITION + FAST FIND ONLINE 

The information nurses need…when, where, and how they need it!
Nursing-focused and easy-to-read, this full-color manual delivers all the information you need to understand how tests work, interpret their results, and provide quality patient care—pre-test, intra-test, and post-test. 

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• “Potential Nursing Problems” tables summarizing present problems, signs and symptoms, and interventions related to the study
• “Common Use” for each monograph, an at-a-glance description of what the test is for, in everyday language that patients will understand
• Monographs that focus on what you need to do before, during, and after each laboratory and diagnostic test, including patient Teaching, patient safety, social and cultural issues, and nutritional considerations.
• Diagnostic imaging monographs with the reasons for the test result
• Pathophysiology information that explains why a lab test result is increased or decreased
• Reference ranges and interfering factors