This video series uses realistic patient care scenarios and dramatic, full-color animation sequences to bring drug therapy to life with unparalleled impact and immediacy. Unlike any other drug resource on the market, the Expert Drug Therapy videos actually demonstrate how a drug works inside the body to produce its therapeutic effects. You'll see how specific drugs halt or reverse a disease process and what adverse reactions they may cause. And you'll learn what implications these effects have for your nursing care before, during, and after drug administration.

Each 30-minute video focuses on drug therapy for a specific disorder, such as hypertension or myocardial infarction (MI). By deepening your understanding of drug therapy as it pertains to specific disorders, the Expert Drug Therapy series will help you provide your patients with the safe, expert care you want to give.

Only the Expert Drug Therapy video series offers important benefits like these:

• Presents each drug (or drug class) in the context of a typical patient with a common major disorder and its complications.
• Takes you inside the patient's body for a clear, close-up look at each drug's actions.
• Shows how each drug's actions inside the cells, tissues, and organs produce its therapeutic—and adverse—effects and guides your interventions accordingly.
• Helps you administer drugs more safely by highlighting key nursing interventions before, during, and after drug administration.
• Shows you how to monitor and enhance each drug's effectiveness while preventing or minimizing its adverse effects.
• Helps you reduce the risk of medication errors, a leading cause of accidental patient death and injury.
• Helps you predict and prevent dangerous drug interactions.
• Demonstrates safe preparation of commonly prescribed drugs and their administration by all major routes.
• Enhances your reputation as a knowledgeable clinical resource among other health care professionals.

Each video includes these recurring features:

• WARNING! that alerts you instantly whenever a life-threatening complication is imminent or developing.
• ADMINISTRATION TIP that helps reduce the risk of serious complications or adverse reactions by demonstrating specific techniques and by offering advice on what to do before, during, and after drug administration.
• DOSAGE ALERT that minimizes the risk of adverse reactions by providing vital information about a drug's dosage.
• ADVERSE REACTIONS that prepares you to identify, prevent, or treat adverse reactions.
• DRUG INTERACTIONS that warns you about a drug's potentially dangerous interactions with other drugs or foods.
• PATHOPHYSIOLOGY REVIEW that clearly shows how a disorder develops, progresses, and causes signs and symptoms, and then gives you a comprehensive understanding of a drug's therapeutic actions.
• Handy, pocket-size Quick-Reference Cards allow you to carry vital drug information with you.
• Self-tests with answers and rationales help reinforce your knowledge, and CE tests provide an opportunity to earn contact hours.