Understanding Pharmacology: A Physiological Approach
Leilani Grajeda-Higley, San Diego State University

ISBN-10: 0838581366
ISBN-13: 9780838581360

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1999
Format: Paper; 368 pp
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An adjunct text for Nursing Pharmacology courses.

This text makes pharmacology more interesting and understandable for nursing students, using a unique concept to look at drugs as chemicals mimicking the molecular “languages” of the body. It emphasizes the ideas that cells communicate with one another, and that drugs imitate that communication within the body's nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Clever and fun line drawings make the complex subject matter comprehensible, and reinforce the concepts by illustrating drug actions.

  • Master Systems approach—Explains that the body speaks three languages within three systems that also talk to each other.

    • Introduces students to a new and simplified way of thinking about the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems that constantly work together and applies this physiology to the study of pharmacology. Ex.___

  • Interactive Visual Presentation—e.g., demonstrates how the thyroid traps iodine and creates its hormones.

    • Illustrates complex processes within the body, enabling students to recall the drug actions. Ex.___

  • “The Nurse Takes Action” chapter.

    • Makes the concepts of the book come alive in nursing practice. Helps students to visualize how pharmacology is involved in nursing care. Ex.___

  • “Over the Counter: Discussions with the Pharmacist” chapter—Explains pharmacokinetics and drug interactions.

    • Engages students in critical thinking with advice and precautions from a pharmacist. Ex.___



Introduction.

I. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND DRUGS.

 1. Sodium and Drugs That Affect the Action Potential.

 2. Drugs That Affect Calcium, Phosphorus, and the Completion of the Action Potential.

 3. Cholinergic and Anticholinergic Drugs.

 4. Drugs of the Sympathetic Nervous System.

 5. Histamine, Antihistamines, and H 2 Blockers.

 6. Drugs That Affect GABA: Anxiolytics, Anticonvulsants, Hypnotics, and Muscle Relaxants.

 7. Opiates and Opiate Blockers.

II. THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM AND DRUGS.

 8. Drugs for Lipid Control.

 9. Drugs to Treat Disorders of the Islets of Langerhans.

10. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone and the Glucocorticoids.

11. Drugs for the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands.

12. Drugs That Maintain Mineral and Fluid Balance.

13. Sex Hormones.

III. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND DRUGS.

14. Nonsteroidal Antinflammatories (NSAIDs).

15. Drugs That Affect Clotting and Mucus.

16. Antimicrobials: Antivirals, Antibiotics, Antifungals, and Antiparasitics.

17. Drugs to Treat Cancer: Antineoplastics.

18. Drugs to Increase or Suppress Immunity.

IV. THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND DRUGS.

19. Drugs That Work in the Intestinal Lumen.

V. CRITICAL THINKING.

20. Over the Counter: The Pharmacist Speaks.

21. The Nurse Takes Action.

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