Franklin BOOKMAN NIM-2072 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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Gahart’s
Intravenous
Medications
USER’S GUIDE
NIM-2072
www.franklin.com

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Contents
Preface .......................................................................... 3
Key Guide ...................................................................... 5
Introduction ................................................................... 7
Installing a Book Card .................................................... 7
Selecting a Book ............................................................ 8
Using the Color Keys ...................................................... 8
Viewing a Demonstration ............................................... 9
Changing the Settings .................................................... 9
Looking up Drugs ........................................................... 10
Finding Drugs by Category ............................................. 11
Reading Drug Monographs ............................................. 12
Searching for Words....................................................... 13
Highlighting Search Words ............................................. 14
Expanding Your Searches ............................................... 15
Reading Cross-references, Footnotes, and Tables ........... 16
Using Bookmarks ........................................................... 17
Transferring Words Between Books ................................ 18
Book Card Care ............................................................. 18
Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks ............................. 19
Appendix: Key to Abbreviations ..................................... 19
Index .............................................................................. 22

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This 1997 edition marks the twenty-
fourth year of publication of
Intrave-
nous Medications
.
Annual revisions meet the tremendous
need for clear, concise, complete, and
accurate information on newly released
and existing IV drugs. This has been a
huge year for new IV drug approvals
by the FDA. Sixteen new drugs are in-
cluded (two are available only in
Canada and the United Kingdom, and
one is a new formulation of an old
product [warfarin] with a newly ap-
proved FDA indication.) In addition,
there are many important updates,
such as changes in dose, additional
disease-specific doses, refinements in
dosing applications, new indications,
new drug interactions, additional pre-
cautions, and new information in anti-
dotes. In some of the monographs,
you’ll find new, helpful charts for dilu-
tion and/or rate of administration. In
the Appendix of this User’s Guide,
you’ll find a key to abbreviations. In the
“Introduction” section (found under
the menu item “Drugs”), the Important
IV Therapy Facts are grouped to help
identify the information you want
quickly.
Health care today is an intense envi-
ronment. The speed of change is over-
whelming, but the authors and
publisher of
Intravenous Medications
have a commitment to provide all
health professionals who have the re-
sponsibility to administer IV medica-
tions with complete, accurate, current
information in a clear, concise, acces-
sible, and reliable tool. Each specific
drug must be able to be interpreted for
a specific patient. All drugs currently
approved for intravenous use (with the
exception of opaque dyes used in radi-
ology, some general anesthetics used
only in OR, and a few rarely used
drugs [see Appendix B] are included.
In addition, all information has been
thoroughly revised to incorporate the
most current documented knowledge
available.
Intravenous Medications is designed
for use in critical care areas, as the
nursing station, in the office, in public
Preface

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health and home care settings, and by
students and the armed services. Per-
tinent information can be found in a
few seconds. Take advantage of its
availability and quickly review every in-
travenous medication before adminis-
tration.
The nurse is frequently placed in a vari-
ety of difficult situations. While the
physician verbally requests or writes
an order, the nurse must evaluate it for
appropriateness, prepare it, administer
it, and observe the effects. Intravenous
drugs are instantly absorbed into the
bloodstream, hopefully leading to a
prompt therapeutic action, but the risk
of an inappropriate reaction is a con-
stant threat that can easily become a
frightening reality. It will be the nurse
who must initiate emergency mea-
sures should adverse effects occur.
This is an awesome responsibility.
If, after reviewing the information in In-
travenous Medications
, you have any
questions about any order you are
given, clarify it with the physician, con-
Preface
sult with the pharmacist, or consult
your supervisor. The circumstances
will determine whom you approach
first. If the physician thinks it is impera-
tive to carry out an order even though
you have unanswered questions or
concerns, never hesitate to request
that the physician administer the drug,
drug combination, or dose himself or
herself. In this era of constant change,
the physician should be very willing to
supply you, your supervisor, and/or
the pharmacist with current studies
documenting the validity and appropri-
ateness of orders.
All information presented in this prod-
uct is pertinent only to the intravenous
use of the drug and not necessarily to
intramuscular, subcutaneous, oral, or
other means of administration.
Betsy L. Gahart
Adrienne R. Nazareno

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Key Guide
Color Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green) Shows the location of
the text that you’re reading.
SEARCH
(yellow) Goes to the Word
Search screen.
LIST
(blue) Lets you add, find, or re-
move a bookmark.
Function Keys
BACK
Erases typed letters or backs
up to the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals or
punctuation.
CARD
Exits the book you’re reading.
CLEAR
Clears all searches and high-
lights the Drugs menu.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, starts a
word search, or starts the high-
light in text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Highlights the Drugs menu.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
SPACE
At the Word Search screen,
types a space.
? ✻
At a menu, shows the full title
of the highlighted item. At the
text, shows its location (same
as
SPEC
).
Direction Keys
Moves the cursor, highlight, or text.
Pages up or down.
SPACE
Pages down.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
BACK
Goes to the top level of the
Drugs menu from a lower level.
✩
+
CARD
Transfers a word between books.
✩
+
ENTER
From a highlighted item on
the Drugs menu, goes directly to
the text. At the text, highlights a
cross-reference or bookmark.
✩
+ At a drug monograph, goes
to the next or previous mono-
graph, if any. After a word search,
shows the location of the next or
previous match.
UP DN
UP
DN
or
*Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

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Key Guide
✩
+Q-P Types numbers.
✩
+ At the Word Search
screen, types a hyphen.
CAP
+At a menu, goes to the last
or or first item. At a drug mono-
graph, displays the next or
previous section.
CAP
+ At the Word Search
screen, types an asterisk to
stand for a series charac-
ters or spaces in the
search word(s).
Quick Keys*
When you are reading a
drug monograph, the Quick
keys display these sections:
A
Actions
O
Antidote
T
Compatible With
C
Contraindications
S
Dilution
D
Dose Adjustments
L
Drug/Lab Interactions
X
Incompatible With
I
Indications and Usage
N
Neonatal/Infant Dose
P
Pediatric Dose
W
Precautions
R
Rate of Administration
E
Side Effects
U
Usual Dose
*You can use the Quick keys only when a drug
monograph is on screen.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed in this Key Guide only for this
book card.
Other books have their own color
key functions, which are labelled on
their cards or on the BOOKMAN
keyboard. For more information,
read “Using the Color Keys.”
?
✻

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Installing a Book Card
Warning! Never install or remove a
book card when your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you entered in its built-in book and in
any installed book cards will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the book card tabs with
the notches in a card slot.
4. Press the book card until it
snaps into place.
Introduction
Your new BOOKMAN book card is a
powerful, portable electronic reference
that you can use anywhere. Simply in-
stall it into your BOOKMAN and you’re
ready to go.
Using this book, you can search for
detailed monographs by generic and
trade name drugs, by categories of
drugs, and even by words appearing in
monographs. Cross-references, foot-
notes, and tables provide additional in-
formation.
You can also place your own book-
marks in the text to quickly find the
drug monographs and other sections
that you use most often, as well as
look up the meanings of abbreviations,
and transfer words to look them up in
other relevant BOOKMAN books.
➤ Using the Instruction Label
This User’s Guide is accompanied
by a self-adhesive instruction label
that can affixed to the inside top
cover of your BOOKMAN for quick
reference.
➤ Removing a Book Card
Caution: When you remove a
book card that does not have a
built-in battery of its own, informa-
tion that you entered in that book
card may be erased.

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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on your BOOKMAN change their func-
tions according to which book you are
using.
When you are using its built-in book,
the color keys function as labelled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard. When you
are using an installed book card, the
color keys function as labelled on that
book card.
Remember, the color keys for book
cards function as labelled on their
cards, not necessarily as labelled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard.
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If one or more book cards are installed
in your BOOKMAN, you can select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
3. Press or to select
the book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to use it.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
When using this book card, you can
turn off your BOOKMAN at any
time. When you turn on your
BOOKMAN again, the screen that
you last viewed normally appears.

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Viewing a Demonstration Changing the Settings
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust
the type size, shutoff time, and screen
contrast.
The shutoff time determines how long
your BOOKMAN stays on if you forget
to turn it off.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast on
the Setup menu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Use or to select a new
setting.
Or press
BACK
to leave the set-
ting unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to save the
setting.
Before you use this book, you may want
to see a brief demonstration. First, be
certain that the book card is installed and
selected. Then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Use to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. To stop the demo, press
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
.
To exit help, press
BACK
.
To read a tutorial about this book,
highlight
Tutorial on the Setup menu
and then press
ENTER
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to scroll through
menus or view more text.