Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2009 | 4th Revised edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-1-60547-197-6 (ISBN)
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Contains things health care practitioners need to review and students need to learn about calculating drug dosages. This title reviews the basic math needed to perform dosage calculation, including fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. It walks the nurse through the interpretation of many examples of drug orders.
Now in its Fourth Edition, Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! contains everything health care practitioners need to review and students need to learn about calculating drug dosages. This entertaining and informative reference reviews the basic math needed to perform dosage calculation, including fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and proportions. It walks the nurse through the interpretation of hundreds of examples of drug orders and the performance of hundreds of complex dosage calculations, and provides information on deciphering difficult abbreviations, dealing with unclear handwriting, reading medication labels, selecting administration equipment, and more. Special elements found throughout the book make it easy to remember key points. Purchasers of this edition will also have access to the newest information on drugs at www.edruginfo.com.

Contributors and consultants Not another boring foreword Part I Math basics *1 Fractions *2 Decimals and percentages *3 Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X *4 Dimensional analysis Part II Measurement systems *5 Metric system *6 Alternative measurement systems Part III Recording drug administration *7 Drug orders *8 Administration records *9 Preventing medication errors Part IV Oral, topical, and rectal drugs *10 Calculating oral drug dosages *11 Calculating topical and rectal dosages Part V Parenteral administrations *12 Calculating parenteral injections *13 Calculating I.V. infusions Part VI Special calculations *14 Calculating pediatric dosages *15 Calculating obstetric dosages *16 Calculating critical care dosages Appendices and Index Practice makes perfect Table of conversions Summary of dosage calculation formulas Glossary Selected references

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.1.2009
Reihe/Serie Incredibly Easy! Series ; 174
Mitarbeit Sonstige Mitarbeit: Springhouse
Verlagsort Philadelphia
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 235 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-60547-197-6 / 1605471976
ISBN-13 978-1-60547-197-6 / 9781605471976
Zustand Neuware
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