
Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 6. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-60547-197-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60547-197-6 (9781605471976)
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Content
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