Thoroughly revised and updated every year, this portable, up-to-date handbook contains all the essential information needed to safely administer thousands of generic and trade name drugs. It features more than 2,000 new drug facts including new and revised nursing considerations, patient and family teaching guidelines, and side effects, adverse reactions, precautions, interactions, contraindications, IV therapy facts, and hundreds of additional herbal and alternative interactions. Many special features promote safe medication administration and prevention of drug errors, including identification of high alert drugs, do-not-crush and nursing alert icons, do-not-confuse cautions, new FDA recommended Tall man spellings, and overdose treatment. It includes a DrugPro mini CD-ROM with patient teaching guides, a drug-interaction tool, and detailed monographs of about 30 popular herbal products.