Math for nurses : a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation

Math for nurses : a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyer, Mary Jo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , c2013
Edition:8th ed
Subjects:
Nursing > Mathematics > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Pharmaceutical arithmetic > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Pharmaceutical Preparations > administration & dosage > Handbooks
Pharmaceutical Preparations > administration & dosage > Nurses' Instruction
Dosage Forms > Handbooks
Dosage Forms > Nurses' Instruction
Drug Dosage Calculations > Handbooks
Drug Dosage Calculations > Nurses' Instruction
Mathematics > Handbooks
Mathematics > Nurses' Instruction
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Preassessment test : mathematics skills review
  • 2. Fractions
  • 3. Decimals
  • 4. Percents, ratio, and proportion
  • 5. The metric, household, and apothecary systems of measurements
  • 6. Approximate equivalents and system conversions
  • 7. Medication labels
  • 8. Oral dosage calculations
  • 9. Parenteral dosage calculations
  • 10. Intravenous therapy
  • 11. Intravenous therapies : critical care applications
  • 12. Insulin
  • 13. Heparin preparation and dosage calculations : subcutaneous and intravenous
  • 14. Pediatric dosage calculations and intravenous therapy
  • 15. Solutions and drug reconstitution

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