 Welcome to nursing school explained today. I wanted to go over this drug guide for nurses by F.A. Davis It's always called the Davis's drug guide for nurses I particularly like this book because it's very easy to read when you see drug books They are very complicated. There's always lots and lots of information. This book is just really easy to look up So let's look up nitroglycerin here. It's a pretty common medication. So right away It'll tell you what therapeutic classification it has. So in this case, it's an anti-angina Pharmacologic, it's a nitrate indication. So when do we use it for acute? Uses translingual sublingual ointment and long term for phylactic oral and transdermal management of angina pectoris PO is an adjunct treatment of heart failure IV adjunct treatment of acute MI. So this is a pretty intense drug for that's going to affect the patient's heart and the production of controlled hypotension during surgical procedures and treatment of heart failures is what it does and Then action so it increases the coronary coronary blood flow by dilating coronary arteries and then Proving collateral flow to ischemic regions and then right away if you think about Arteries dilating you should think about blood pressure dropping So then it says here therapeutic effect relief of prevention of angina attacks increase cardiac output reduction of blood pressure Then it goes over how this is processed It gives it a different routes onset peak and duration which are very important to know Contraindications and then again OB lactation and pediatrics is always going to be in red and then adverse Reactions most medications have a long long list of medications But what this Davis drug guide does it gives you everything that's of important either bold Underlined or in red. So in this case the most common side effects are dizziness headache hypotension and tachycardia Yeah, there are other ones But the underlined ones are the most important ones and then whenever there is something in red pay attention to that So for interactions here, we have concurrent use of any of these ed erectile dysfunction drugs may result in severe Hypotension do not use within 24 hours of isosorbidinitrate or mononitrate and So basically these any of these might result in severe hypotension because they these medications already cause hypotension Now we're gonna give them that nitrate on top of it So we know we have to very carefully monitor the patient's blood pressure Now it tells us the different dosages and routes of administration and then nursing implications So we want to assess their pain because most likely it's because of angina and or MI We might look at lab test considerations and then implementation So things to watch out for and then for again for IV administration It gives you the concentration and the rate That it's infusing but we already have that over here and always look at the max dose 2 and then it tells you at the y side compatibility what you can hook it up to It continues on here because this medication comes in many different routes so there is a lot of different things to consider but the most important part here always look at the action and the adverse side effects and then the pharmacologic Classification right away and you have a pretty good idea of what this medication does and how to How to use it and safely administer it to the patient again? This Dave is drug guide for nurses. This is the 16th edition. They might have come up with a new one already I think this is 20 20 or 20 21 But also be aware that all these resources are available on in an e-book version So you can get that and with my code Petra 20 you get 20% off any FAA Davis products So go ahead and check out their products. They have great resources for nurses and nursing students Thanks for watching this review. See you soon