Drug Points® System: What's New in December, 2008

DrugPoints® System
by Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
Thomson Healthcare, Inc., (2008)

Rather than giving you too little or too much information, DrugPoints® System gives you direct access to the exact level of drug information you need to do your job. This evidence-based resource helps healthcare professionals prescribe, administer and monitor drugs safely and efficiently. Contains more than 1,400 concise and unbiased synopses on drugs.

New Monographs:

• Eltrombopag Olamine
• Fenofibric Acid
• Fospropofol Disodium
• insulin aspart/insulin aspart protamine, recombinant
• Plerixafor
• Tetrabenazine

Review of Natural Products: What's New in February, 2009

Review of Natural Products: What's New in February, 2009

New Monographs

COROSOLIC ACID

• Scientific Name(s): 2 alpha-hydroxy ursolic acid
• Common Name(s): Glucosol, corosolic acid

FLAX

• Scientific Name(s): Linum usitatissimum L. Family: Linaceae
• Common Name(s): Flax, flaxseed, linseed, lint bells, linum 1

POPPY

• Scientific Name(s): Papaver somniferum L. and Papaver bracteatum . Family: Papaveraceae
• Common Name(s): P. somniferum : Opium poppy, poppyseed poppy . P. bracteatum : Thebaine poppy, great scarlet poppy . Oleum Papaveris Seminis, lipiodol

RHUBARB

• Scientific Name(s): Rheum officinale Baillon, Rheum palmatum L., and Rheum rhabarbarum L. Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family).
• Common Name(s): Rhubarb, rheum, rhaptonic, Chinese rhubarb, bo ye da huang, da-huang, ta-huang, radix et rhizoma rhei, and Turkey rhubarb . Rhubarb is also one of the ingredients in Danning Pian and Number Ten preparations.

Review of Natural Products: What's New in January, 2009

Review of Natural Products: What's New in January, 2009

New Monographs

PECTIN

• Scientific Name(s): Pectin
• Common Name(s): Pectin

PINEAPPLE

• Scientific Name(s): Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. Family: Bromeliaceae
• Common Name(s): Pineapple, bromelain, Phlogenzym, Debridase

VITAMIN E

• Scientific Name(s): Alpha-tocopherol
• Common Name(s): Vitamin E

STAT!Ref Podcasts

NCLEX-RN® Success with Sally Lagerquist, RN, MS
Davis’s NCLEX-RN® Success, 2nd Ed. ©2006 F.A. Davis Company Publishers

Connect your nursing students with Sally Lagerquist, who has helped more than 200,000 candidates pass the NCLEX-RN nursing licensure exam since 1976! She has partnered with STAT!Ref to provide a series of podcasts aimed at assisting students with their preparation for the NCLEX-RN® exam.

Students can find the podcasts on the STAT!Ref homepage and listen to them or download them for mp3 players. Then, they can learn more about each section in the title in STAT!Ref. Note: If your institution doesn't link to the homepage, you can click on the STAT!Ref logo on the top left of each search page to get there.

Sally Lagerquist, RN, MS, is president and course coordinator of Review for Nurses, Inc. and has been helping nursing students pass licensure exams for more than 30 years. The author and editor of seven books and 28 editions, she is also a faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco, School of Nursing.

Containing 2,500 practice questions and test-taking tips based on the latest official NCLEX-RN® test plan, Davis’s NCLEX-RN® Success concentrates on nursing concerns for every Client Needs category. A Doody’s “4-star” selection! Click here to learn more!