Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab Global
Pearson Education Limited
978-1-4479-2264-3 (ISBN)
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The text starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration and common clinical measurements. The online personalised study plan helps to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and provides further interactive practice. By illustrating how mathematical theory is relevant to clinical practice, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is a great tool to help increase students' confidence and excel in their studies and career.
MyMathLab Global is a powerful online homework, revision and assessment tool designed to help students practice and improve their understanding of mathematics and to give their instructors feedback on their performance.
To date, more than 5 million students at 1,850 institutions have used MyMathLab, and in 2008 alone, over 50 million assignments were submitted.
Specific features
For students
Personalised Study Plan, generated when students complete a test or quiz, indicates which topics have been mastered and links to tutorial exercises for topics students have not mastered. Instructors can customise the available topics in the Study Plan to match their course topics.
Learning aids, such as videos and a complete eText version of the book, help students independently improve their understanding and performance-and now you can upload your own course documents and presentations as well.
For lecturers
Assessment Manager lets you assign media resources (such as a video segment or a textbook passage), homework, quizzes, and tests. If you prefer, you can create your own online homework, quizzes, and tests that are automatically graded. Select just the right mix of questions from the online exercise bank, instructor-created custom exercises, and testbank items.
Gradebook, designed specifically for mathematics, automatically tracks students' results, lets you stay on top of student performance, and gives you control over how to calculate final marks. You can also add offline (paper-and-pencil) marks to the gradebook.
Pearl Shihab has wide experience of nursing and midwifery in both hospital and community settings. She has spent the last fourteen years teaching biosciences on healthcare programmes and supporting students lacking in maths skills.
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1 Basic arithmetic skills
The things you don't want to ask about but need to know
1.1 Addition
1.2 Subtraction
1.3 Multiplication
1.4 Division
1.5 Exponents and scientific notation
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
2 Decimals and other fractions
How to deal with the bits and pieces
2.1 Addition of vulgar fractions
2.2 Subtraction of vulgar fractions
2.3 Multiplication and division of vulgar fractions
2.4 Addition and subtraction of decimal fractions
2.5 Multiplication and division of decimal fractions
2.6 More about exponents
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
3 SI units
How's your French? You only need one phrase: 'Systeme International d'Unites'
3.1 The units
3.2 Changing units from one to another
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
Reference
4 Drug calculations
Pills, potions and pinpricks
4.1 Tablets, capsules, and liquids
4.2 Body weight and surface area
4.3 Injections
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
5 Drug concentrations
The jokers in the pack
5.1 Drugs measured in units
5.2 Measuring in moles
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
6 Per cent, percentage and ratios
Hundreds and thousands and much more
6.1 Per cent
6.2 Percentage concentration
6.3 Ratios
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
Reference
7 Intravenous fluid and drug administration
Drips, drops and devices
7.1 Intravenous infusion
7.2 Other drug delivery devices
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
References
8 Common clinical measurements
Charting, charting and more charting
8.1 Pulse, temperature and blood pressure
8.2 Respiratory measurements
8.3 Fluid balance
8.4 Weight, height and nutrition
What did you learn?
More 'Time to Try' examples
Web resources
Suggested reading
9 Physiological measurements
Blood, but no sweat and tears
9.1 Blood
9.2 Urinalysis
9.3 Blood gases
What did you learn?
Web resources
Suggested reading
10 Statistics and reading research articles
No ostriches here, please
10.1 Reading a paper
10.2 Presentation of data
10.3 Normal distribution
What did you learn?
Web resources
Suggested reading
Appendices
A Roman numerals and their Arabic equivalent
B Multiples and divisions of SI units
C Important elements in the body
D Reference values for adults
E Abbreviations used in prescriptions
F An example of a medicine chart
G Peak expiratory flow rate
H Body mass index and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
I Nomogram for calculating body surface area
J Weight conversion tables
K Summary of methods for drug calculations
L Summary of Essential Skills Clusters
Glossary
Answer key
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Harlow |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4479-2264-6 / 1447922646 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4479-2264-3 / 9781447922643 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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