GK Sudhakar MSC (Pharm)
Senior Lecturer Department of Pharmacology Kasturba Medical College
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
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Pharmarcology for Nurses
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First Edition: 2010
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My wife S Shanthi
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7FOREWORD
Administration of Medication is one of the major responsibilities of a professional nurse. Therefore, it is important that all nurses should study pharmacology carefully during their student career.
This textbook of Pharmacology for Nurses, by Sri GK Sudhakar will be of great help to student-nurses and nursing teachers. The chapters have been written with necessary illustrations in simple and lucid manner.
It is my proud privilege to write ‘Foreword’ for this book. While I congratulate Sri GK Sudhakar, I am confident that this book will meet the learning needs of BSc Nursing students.
Dr MC Alwar md
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
9PREFACE
Pharmacology is a vast subject with many aspects related to drugs, their composition, mechanism of action, uses, etc. which make the subject complicated and difficult to understand. Director of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, has motivated me to write a text that condenses this vital subject into essential elements and covers BSc Nursing syllabus framed by Rajiv Gandhi University Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The text is prepared in simple, precise and point-wise manner. This style of presentation helps the students to understand the subject in a better manner and also to quickly review and revise the subject before examination. Many tables have been included so as to make learning simpler and easier for the students.
I am grateful to Professor Dr MC Alwar, Department of Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, for his guidance, suggestions, and writing the Foreword.
11ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am thankful to the management of Kasturba Medical College, President and Chancellor of Manipal University, Dr Ramdas M Pai and Dean Maj Gen (Retd) G Rajagopal for their encouragement and support.
I thank my colleagues Prof Dr KV Ramesh, Dr MC Alwar, Dr HN Gopalakrishna and Dr Narendranath and postgraduates Dr Gurudutt Nayak, Dr Jayakumar Sejpal for their valuable suggestions and proper guidance.
My sincere thanks are due to my wife Mrs S Shanthi for her constant encouragement and moral support in bringing out this book.