Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! -

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

Springhouse (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2004 | 3rd Revised edition
Springhouse Publishing Co ,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-58255-392-4 (ISBN)
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A guide to calculating drug dosages. It shows nurses how to interpret hundreds of sample drug orders and perform complex dosage calculations. With illustrations and checklists to help readers remember key points, it includes NCLEX[registered]-style questions. It also features a chapter on preventing medication errors.
The thoroughly updated Third Edition of this practical, entertaining reference is a complete and clear guide to calculating drug dosages. After reviewing basic math, the book shows nurses how to interpret hundreds of sample drug orders and perform hundreds of complex dosage calculations. Abundant illustrations and checklists help readers remember key points. This edition includes NCLEX[registered]-style questions throughout the text, a new chapter on preventing medication errors, and an expanded chapter applying dimensional analysis to practical dosage calculation problems. The expanded Practice Makes Perfect section includes alternate-format NCLEX[registered]-style questions.

    Part I:Math basics Fractions Decimals and percentages Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X Dimensional analysis Part II: Measurement systems Metric system Alternative measurement systems Part III: Recording drug administration Drug orders Administration records Preventing medication errors Part IV: Oral, topical, and rectal drugs Calculating oral drug dosages Calculating topical and rectal dosages Part V: Parenteral administrations Calculating parenteral injections Calculating I.V. infusions Part VI:Special calculations Calculating pediatric dosages Calculating obstetric dosages Calculating critical care dosages Appendices and Index Practice makes perfect Table of conversions Summary of dosage calculation formulas Glossary Selected references

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2005
Reihe/Serie Incredibly Easy! Series
Zusatzinfo 100
Verlagsort Philadelphia
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
ISBN-10 1-58255-392-0 / 1582553920
ISBN-13 978-1-58255-392-4 / 9781582553924
Zustand Neuware
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