Franklin Nursing97 Drug Handbook NDH-2062 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
NDH-2062
Nursing97
Drug Handbook
®

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Contents
Using the Nursing97 Drug Handbook ,
you can quickly and conveniently find
monographs of hundreds of drugs. You
can find drugs by their therapeutic
class, by their names, or by searching
for words in their monographs. You
can even place bookmarks to quickly
find the drugs that you use most often.
Key Guide ................................................................................ 3
Installing a Book Card .............................................................. 4
Selecting a Book ...................................................................... 5
Using the Color Keys................................................................ 5
Viewing a Demonstration ......................................................... 6
Changing the Settings .............................................................. 6
Finding Drugs by Name ............................................................ 7
Finding Drugs by Class ............................................................ 8
Searching for Words ................................................................ 9
Highlighting Search Words ....................................................... 11
Expanding Your Searches .........................................................11
Reading Drug Monographs .......................................................12
Reading Cross-references and Footnotes ................................. 13
Using Bookmarks .....................................................................14
Sending Words Between Books ................................................15
Book Card Care .......................................................................15
Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks .......................................16
Limited Warranty (U.S. only)..................................................... 16
Index ........................................................................................17

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Key Guide
Key Guide
Color Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green) Displays the Outline
location of the current text.
SEARCH
(yellow) Lets you type one or
more search words.
LIST
(blue) Lets you add, find, or re-
move a bookmark.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up (e.g., erases letters).
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals
and punctuation.
CARD
Exits the book you’re reading.
CLEAR
Displays the Drugs menu and
clears your search word(s).
ENTER
Selects a menu item, enters
your search word(s), or starts
the highlight in text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the Class menu.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
?
✻
At a menu, displays the full title
of the highlighted item. At text,
displays the Outline location.
Direction Keys
Moves cursor, highlight, or text.
Pages up or down.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
ENTER
At the Drugs menu, goes
directly to a monograph. At
the text, highlights a super-
script footnote, cross-
refer-
ence, or bookmark.
✩
+ Goes to the next or previous
or monograph in a subclass or
Outline location of a word
search match.
✩
+Q-P Type numbers.
CAP
+In a menu, goes to the last or
or first item. At text, goes to the
next or previous heading.
CAP
+
?
✻
Types an asterisk to stand
for letters in search words.
*Hold the first key while pressing the other key.
DN
UP
DN
UP

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Installing a Book Card
➤ Removing a Book Card
Warning: 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 will be erased.
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.
Key Guide
➤ About the Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ slightly
from what you see on screen. This
does not mean that your BOOK-
MAN is malfunctioning.
Quick Keys*
Note: You can use the Quick Keys only
when a drug monograph is on screen.
AGoes to the Action section.
CGoes to the Contraindications section.
DGoes to the Indications & Dosage
section.
IGoes to the Interactions section.
NGoes to the Nursing Considerations
section.
OGoes to the Onset, Peak, Duration
section.
PGoes to the Patient Teaching section.
RGoes to the Adverse Reactions section.
SGoes to the How Supplied section.

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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 the built-in book,
the color keys function as labelled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard. When you
are using a 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 as labelled on the BOOK-
MAN 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 highlight
the book you want to use.
For best results, press the BOOK-
MAN keys firmly and slowly.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
When using the book described in
this User’s Guide, you can turn off
your BOOKMAN at any time. When
you turn on your BOOKMAN again,
the screen that you last viewed ap-
pears.

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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 type size sets how large the char-
acters appear on screen. The shutoff
time sets how long your BOOKMAN
stays on if you forget to turn it off. The
screen contrast sets how light or dark
the text on the screen appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
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 change the
setting.
Or press
BACK
to leave the set-
ting unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Before you use this book, you may want to
see a brief demonstration.
First be certain that this book card is in-
stalled in your BOOKMAN and that you
have selected it. To learn how, read “Install-
ing a Book Card” and “Selecting a Book.”
Then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight View Demo on the
Setup menu.
3. Press
ENTER
to start the demo.
4. 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, select Tutorial
from the Setup menu.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move through
menus or view more text.

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Finding Drugs by Name
The simplest way to find a generic or
brand name drug is to type its name at
the Drugs menu.
Note: Selecting any brand name will
retrieve comprehensive generic
drug information. Some generic
drug monographs may cover more
than one generic drug and multiple
brand names.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Start typing a drug name.
For example, type aspirin.
To type a number, hold
✩
and
press a numbered key. To undo a
typed letter, press
BACK
. You can
also use or to scroll.
3. When the drug that you want
is highlighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a section by scrolling
to it or by typing its first few
letters. For example, highlight
Indications and Dosage.
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Use , DN, or
SPACE
to scroll
down.
To learn more, see “Reading Drug
monographs.”
7. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Drugs by Name
➤ Cross-references and Footnotes
Many drug monographs have cross-
references and footnotes. To learn
how to read them, see “Reading
Cross-references and Footnotes.”

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Finding Drugs by Class
Using the Class menu, you can find
drugs by their therapeutic classes and
subclasses, such as gastrointestinal
tract drugs that are laxatives.
1. Press
MENU
to highlight the
Class menu.
2. Highlight a class by scrolling to
it or by typing its first few let-
ters. For example, highlight
Gastrointestinal Tract Drugs.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a subclass and then
press
ENTER
to select it. For
example, select Laxatives.
Remember, you can highlight a
menu item by scrolling to it or by
typing its first few letters.
5. Select a drug. For example,
select Mineral Oil.
Finding Drugs by Class
➤ About Combination Products
The first item listed in each subclass
is
Combination Products . If you se-
lect
Combination Products and
there a no combination products in
that subclass, you should press
BACK
to go back to the menu to
select another item.
6. Highlight a section and then
press
ENTER
to select it. For
example, select Action.
7. Use , DN, or
SPACE
to scroll
down.
To learn more, see “Reading Drug
Monographs.”
8. To back up through the levels
of the Class menu, use
BACK
.
9. Press
CLEAR
when finished.

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Another way to find a drug, or any word
or phrase occurring in this book, is to en-
ter it at the Search screen. Please note
that you cannot search for short, com-
mon words such as
the and is .
1. Press
SEARCH
(the yellow key).
The Search screen appears.
2. Type up to six search words.
For example, type epilepsy.
You do not need to type capital let-
ters or punctuation marks. To erase
a letter, press
BACK
. To move the
cursor, press or .
3. Press
ENTER
to search.
This is the Outline location of the first
occurrence, or match, of your search
word(s). To see the full title of a high-
Searching for Words
➤ Viewing the Outline Location
Whenever you are reading a drug
monograph or other part of this book,
you can see the location of that text by
pressing
SPEC
(the green key) or
? *
.
The Outline location is the location
of the text on the Class menu.
You can use or to highlight
items on the Outline location. To
view the full title of a highlighted
item, press
? *
. To go back to the
text you were reading, press
BACK
. Or press
ENTER
to go to
the text of a highlighted item.
➤ Using the Appendices
The appendices are listed at the
bottom of the Class menu. To go to
the appendices, highlight the Class
menu and then hold
CAP
and
press .
Finding Drugs by Class