BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD Nursing97 Drug Handbook ® Electronic Publishers USER’S GUIDE NDH-2062
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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 .......
Key Guide MORE SPEC SEARCH LIST BACK CAP CARD CLEAR ENTER HELP MENU ON/OFF SPACE ?✻ of the highlighted item. At text, displays the Outline location. Color Keys (red) Expands a word search. (green) Displays the Outline location of the current text. (yellow) Lets you type one or more search words. (blue) Lets you add, find, or remove a bookmark. Direction Keys Moves cursor, highlight, or text. UP DN Pages up or down. Key Combinations* ✩ + CARD Sends a word between books.
Key Guide Installing a Book Card Quick Keys* Note: You can use the Quick Keys only when a drug monograph is on screen. 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. A Goes to the Action section. C Goes to the Contraindications section. D Goes to the Indications & Dosage section. I Goes to the Interactions section. N Goes to the Nursing Considerations section.
Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys If one or more book cards are installed in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use. The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change their functions 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. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. 2. Press CARD . 3.
Viewing a Demonstration Changing the Settings Before you use this book, you may want to see a brief demonstration. First be certain that this book card is installed in your BOOKMAN and that you have selected it. To learn how, read “Installing a Book Card” and “Selecting a Book.” Then follow these steps. Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the type size, shutoff time, and screen contrast. The type size sets how large the characters appear on screen.
Finding Drugs by Name Finding Drugs by Name The simplest way to find a generic or brand name drug is to type its name at the Drugs menu. 4. Highlight a section by scrolling to it or by typing its first few letters. For example, highlight Indications and Dosage. 5. Press ENTER . 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. 6. Use , DN, or down. 1. Press CLEAR . 2.
Finding Drugs by Class 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. 6. Highlight a section and then press ENTER to select it. For example, select Action. 1. Press MENU to highlight the Class menu. 2. Highlight a class by scrolling to it or by typing its first few letters. For example, highlight Gastrointestinal Tract Drugs. 7. Use , DN, or SPACE to scroll down.
Searching for Words Finding Drugs by Class Another way to find a drug, or any word or phrase occurring in this book, is to enter it at the Search screen. Please note that you cannot search for short, common words such as the and is. ➤ 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 ? * . 1. Press SEARCH (the yellow key). The Search screen appears. 2. Type up to six search words.
Searching for Words lighted item, press 4. Press ENTER SPEC or Searching for Words ?* . ➤ If You Misspell a Search Word to see the first match. If you enter a misspelled search word, a list of corrections appears. 5. Hold ✩ and use DN or UP to see the Outline locations of the next or previous matches. 6. Press ENTER to see a match. 7. Press MENU to see the items with matches listed on the Class menu. Use to highlight a correction and then press ENTER to search.
Highlighting Search Words Expanding Your Searches You can also search for a word by highlighting it in drug monograph or other text in this book. After you have entered a word search, you can expand your search to find additional matches. Note: Some word searches can be expanded up to three times. To learn more, read “Understanding Searches and Expansions” on the next page. 1. When a monograph or other text is on screen, press ENTER to start the highlight.
Reading Drug Monographs Expanding Your Searches ➤ Understanding Searches and Expansions When you search for a word, either by entering it at the Search screen or by highlighting it in text, titles and headings (in bold type) are searched first for exact matches. If no exact matches are found in titles or headings, then the text is searched for exact matches. If no exact matches are found, then the titles and headings are searched for inexact matches, such as inflections and synonyms.
Reading Cross-references and Footnotes Reading Drug Monographs 4. Use these keys to read the monograph: To... Press... scroll line by line or scroll page by page DN or UP page down SPACE go to the next or CAP + or previous heading 5. To go to the next or previous drug monograph in a subclass, hold ✩ and press DN or UP. Note: Using ✩ plus DN or UP lets you go to drug monographs only within a subclass. At the first and last drug in a subclass, “No more” appears. 6.
Using Bookmarks Using Bookmarks Adding a Bookmark Removing a Bookmark You can add up to ten bookmarks to the text of this book to quickly find the drug monographs that you most often use. 1. Find a bookmark icon ( ) in the text of this book. To learn how, read “Finding a Bookmark.” 2. Press LIST (blue). 3. To see the full title of the bookmark to be removed, press ? * . 4. Press ENTER to select Remove Bookmark. Or press BACK to exit without removing the bookmark. 1.
Sending Words Between Books This book can transfer words between certain other BOOKMAN books. To send or receive words between books, you must install the book card in your BOOKMAN. In addition, the installed book card(s) and/or its built-in book must be able to send or receive words. To learn if a book can send or receive words, read its User’s Guide. 1. Highlight a word in this book. To highlight a word in the text, press ENTER and then press the arrow keys. (Read “Highlighting Search Words.”) 2.
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Index ?* key 9 Adding bookmarks 14 ALRT (Alert) 13 Appendices 9 Arrow keys 6 Asterisk (for finding words) 10 AUS (Australia) 13 Automatic shutoff 6 BKM.
Index highlighting words in text 11 understanding 12 Setup menu 6 Shutoff time, changing 6 Spelling correction 10 STAR+CARD 15 Superscript abbreviations. See Footnotes Trademarks 16 Type size, changing 6 Typing asterisks 10 at menus 7, 8 capital letters 9 numbers 7 Viewing appendices 9 cross-references 13 demonstration 6 help messages 6 highlighted menu item titles 9 Outline location of text 9 Outline location of word search matches 9-10 word search matches 10, 11 Warranty (U.S.
BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD Nursing97 Drug Handbook ® Electronic Publishers USER’S GUIDE NDH-2062
