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Main description:
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.
Contents:
Contributors and consultants
Not another boring foreword
- 1 Fractions
- 2 Decimals and percentages
- 3 Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X
- 4 Dimensional analysis
- 5 Metric system
- 6 Alternative measurement systems
- 7 Drug orders
- 8 Administration records
- 9 Preventing medication errors
- 10 Calculating oral drug dosages
- 11 Calculating topical and rectal dosages
- 12 Calculating parenteral injections
- 13 Calculating I.V. infusions
- 14 Calculating pediatric dosages
- 15 Calculating obstetric dosages
- 16 Calculating critical care dosages
Part I Math basics
Part II Measurement systems
Part III Recording drug administration
Part IV Oral, topical, and rectal drugs
Part V Parenteral administrations
Part VI Special calculations
Appendices and Index
Practice makes perfect
Table of conversions
Summary of dosage calculation formulas
Glossary
Selected references
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: January, 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 1g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Nursing, Pharmacology
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