Main description:

Feel confident in your nursing calculations skills!

This easy-to-use textbook provides you with everything you need to know to improve your calculations skills and pass your exams first time. Whether you're preparing for your final year calculations exam, or for a numeracy test to get onto your chosen nursing degree, this book will help you through it all, breaking down the often challenging mathematics into clear and simple guidelines. There are hundreds of questions to practice with and a collection of scenario-based activities that show you how calculations skills are used in day-to-day nursing practice.

It also includes...

over 360 practice questions in the book and an extra 500+ questions free to use online
an interactive website offering further support, self-testing, and mobile study
a diagnostic chapter to help you identify areas you need to work on
all new activities, scenarios and case studies reflecting up to date nursing situations

Contents:

Chapter 1: Diagnostic assessment
Chapter 2: Essential numeracy requirements for nursing
Chapter 3: Quantity conversions for nurses
Chapter 4: Fluid balance and maintenance
Chapter 5: Drug calculations
Chapter 6: Calculating intravenous rates
Chapter 7: Calculations and children
Chapter 8: Exam skills and revision exercises