Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of pharmacology. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Included in the Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series, is a unique comprehensive CD-ROM with 700 practice questions that provides additional review.Content includes all of the "need-to-know" facts covering medications including safety, anti-infection, blood-modifying, gastrointestinal, neurological, psychiatric, and much more.For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.