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With shorter hospital stays, growth of outpatient care, and increased emphasis on health promotion, patient teaching is a significant component in health care today. Mosby's Patient Teaching Guides In Pharmacology offers the health care provider an inexpensive source of approximately 160 patient teaching tools. The manual consists of instruction sheets for 140 individual drugs as well as guides for drug administration methods, health promotion and drug safety that can be copied and given to patients and their families. It also includes general information on patient education. For those who prefer multimedia, Mosby's Patient Teaching Guides In Pharmacology is available onCD-ROM. <p>* Provides affordable, easy access to up-to-date patient teaching guides which can be copied and distributed to patients as appropriate. * Includes approximately 140 guides for the 200 most commonly prescribed drugs, giving the health care provider easy access to patient education information for many common drugs. * Includes illustrated guides on medication administration methods, assisting the health care provider to more effectively teach medication administration. * Contains guides on health promotion and safety topics, to help educate patients on issues related to safe medication use, such as medication safety with children and the elderly, immunization schedules, safe use of over-the-counter medications, flu shot guidelines, and other safety issues. * Describes effective education techniques and strategies to increase the health care provider's effectiveness in providing patient education. * Includes sample medication records that may be copied for patients to assist them in effectively managing their medications. * Available in a 3-ring binder, to facilitate copying of the guides for distribution to patients. * Written at the eighth grade level to increase understanding for patients with low literacy skills. * Follows a consistent, patient-oriented format for each drug, including t