Nursing Courses
Transform your pharmacology course with trusted teaching solutions
Learning pharmacology requires more than memorizing mechanisms of action — it demands an understanding of underlying disease processes and how medications affect the whole patient. Our pharmacology course solutions integrate pharmacology and pathophysiology to support deeper reasoning, reinforce medication safety, and prepare students for confident, real-world clinical decision-making.
Build your course your way — with the flexibility and confidence to choose the approach that works best for you
Our trusted Lippincott content meets the demands of today's pharmacology courses while providing you with choices for the way you like to teach. These solutions support safe medication administration and clinical application, preparing learners for practice through a holistic understanding of patient physiology and pharmacotherapy.
Karch’s Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, 10th Edition
Rebecca Tucker, PhD, ACNPC, MEd, RN
2026
Rebecca Tucker delivers the 10th Edition of Karch’s Focus on Nursing Pharmacology with concise, student-friendly content designed to simplify complex pharmacology concepts. Trusted by educators, this edition integrates the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to align with the NCLEX®, expands DEI content with topics like gender-affirming care and medical marijuana, and includes updated drug administration practices. With NCLEX-style questions and case studies, this text equips students with the critical thinking and clinical judgment skills needed for success in class, exams, and practice.
- Drug Lists identify prototype drugs with strategically placed icons that highlight key medications by class — ideal for quick reference and efficient study.
- Check Your Understanding provides students with NCLEX-style review questions to reinforce clinical judgment and safety considerations for success on the NCLEX.
- Clinical Judgment Scenarios help students apply knowledge to realistic care scenarios, which connect drug content to patient-centered case studies.
- Prototype Summary boxes spotlight essential drug details and need-to-know information for each prototype drug.
- Drugs in Focus tables compare drugs at a glance with clearly listed generic/trade names, dosages, and indications for each class.
Pathopharmacology for Nurses:
An Integrated Approach
Carie Braun, PhD, RN, CNE
Alex Ward Roberts, DNP, BS, APRN, AGACNP-BC
2026
Available as an eBook and in Lippincott CoursePoint.
This groundbreaking text presents disease processes alongside pharmaceutical treatments — exactly as nurses encounter them in clinical practice. This integration helps students achieve deeper understanding and retention as they learn how medications address the pathophysiologic processes of a disease.
Key features:
- Interactive Drug Tables with embedded Lippincott® Advisor links train students to check real-time drug information exactly as they will in clinical settings.
- Integration Stations clarify connections between disease or body processes and pharmacologic treatment through multimedia learning, with companion videos in select Stations that reinforce key concepts and deepen understanding.
- Each chapter’s unfolding Case Study (with questions) challenges students to apply the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model to patient scenarios, developing critical thinking skills exactly as needed in clinical practice.
- Labs and Diagnostics boxes enhance students’ ability to accurately identify and differentiate conditions.
Abrams’ Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice, 13th Edition
Geralyn Frandsen, EdD, RN
Sandra Smith Pennington, PhD, RN
2024
Abrams’ Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice, 13th Edition, continues to guide students and instructors through safe and effective medication administration. Expert pharmacology educators and clinicians explain the “why” behind each nursing action and emphasize individualized nursing care and drug therapy to promote optimal outcomes in every care setting. Extensively updated with clinical judgment case studies in each section for NCLEX® preparation, this 13th Edition makes essential information accessible and engaging to ensure success throughout clinical practice.
- NEW! Clinical Application Case Studies open each chapter with a patient-focused clinical scenario and deliver critical decision-making preparation for the Next-Generation NCLEX exam.
- Quality and Safety Alerts emphasize important considerations regarding patient safety, patient-centered care, and evidence-based practice.
- Black Box warnings alert students to serious or life-threatening adverse effects identified by the FDA for associated drugs.
- Drug Interactions boxes highlight the risk of interactions as well as implications when drugs are combined with other medications, herbs, or foods.
- Patient Teaching Guidelines help students better educate patients and families on safe administration of medications, using non-drug treatment alongside or instead of medications, and knowing when to contact their health care provider.
- Nursing Process Concept Maps clarify drug therapy specific to nursing care with succinct overviews of assessment, planning/goals, nursing interventions, and evaluation allowing improved patient education.
Lippincott® CoursePoint+ for Pharmacology
Lippincott CoursePoint+ is the leading digital curriculum solution for nursing education. It combines trusted eBook content with adaptive learning, virtual simulation, videos, and clinical decision support tools — all supported by in-depth reporting that gives educators actionable insights to personalize learning.
Feature highlights:
- CoursePoint+ Nursing Tutor, powered by Expert AI, is an always-on AI assistant that delivers real-time, personalized support to build clinical judgment and keep students engaged.
- Interactive eBooks allow students to access the title anytime, take notes, and highlight text; with the read-aloud feature, learning is convenient.
- PrepU supports personalized learning through adaptive quizzing.
- Lippincott® Advisor offers students the same point-of-care decision tool they will likely encounter in practice.
- One-Minute Nurse videos break down key nursing concepts to improve student understanding and retention.
- vSim® for Nursing provides virtual simulation to boost students’ confidence and clinical judgment capabilities.
Boost learning by providing practice opportunities
Enhance your course by incorporating these learning tools, and manage your course easily, all in one platform with a single sign-on. Talk to your sales representative about enhancements, including LMS integration.
Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment
Encourage thoughtful practice in patient care. Build a clinical judgment mindset across the curriculum with cognitive practice in hundreds of realistic and complex patient scenarios. Lippincott offers Client Cases for Clinical Judgment in 17 areas in unfolding EHRs.
Lippincott® DocuCare
Lippincott® DocuCare gives students hands-on experience with realistic charting and workflows modeled after leading EHR systems. With 400 customizable patient records, robust clinical decision support, and clinically realistic simulation updates, all in a user-friendly course management platform. Students build clinical judgment along with charting and communication skills that today’s healthcare employers expect and patients need.
vSim® for Nursing*
Deliver the most realistic and up-to-date experience available with expert-authored virtual simulations co-developed by Laerdal Medical and scenarios written by National League for Nursing. vSim® for Nursing provides real-world, evidence-based scenarios with built-in point-of-care solutions for reference and remediation to hone students’ clinical judgment and competence. *Included in CoursePoint+
vrClinicals for Nursing
Enhance clinical decision-making skills with virtual experiences that immerse students in realistic, multi-patient care scenarios. Allowing students to prepare in this safe setting enhances their confidence and readies them for the demands of practice.