Watkins (medical assisting, Lorain County Community College) explains how medications work and are administered and the health professional's role in the process, for students in nursing, medical assisting, surgical technology, respiratory therapy, pharmacology, and other allied health areas. She describes the fundamentals of pharmacology, including its history, patient safety and regulations, and prescription labels; basic math calculations, measurement systems, and dosage calculations; enteral and parenteral medications and administration; and all major drug classifications by body system, focusing on the key attributes of specific systems. The CD-ROM contains calculation activities. This edition has been updated and revised with more practice questions, coverage of specific drugs, new critical-thinking questions and answers, Internet research suggestions, tables, and application exercises and review questions. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)