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Karch’s Focus on Nursing Pharmacology, 10^th 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, 13^th 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.