Calculating Drug Doses Safely
A Handbook for Nurses and Midwives
Published on 14. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-443-07460-8 (ISBN)
Description
The book was developed in response to the increasing complexity of drug therapy, the need to avoid drug errors, and to achieve patient safety and effective risk management measures. It will appeal to both pre-registration students and registered nurses. Nurses returning to practice will find it especially useful.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx. 150 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 234 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-07460-8 (9780443074608)
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Other editions
New editions
George Downie | Jean Mackenzie | Arthur Williams
Calculating Drug Doses Safely
A Handbook For Nurses and Midwives
Book
07/2010
2nd Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€32.39
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Content
Introduction: Why this book is needed. 1. Methods of expressing strengths of medicines 2. Essential arithmetic 3. How to do a drug calculation 4. Calculating oral and other non-injectable doses 5. Calculating parenteral doses Appendices: Abbreviations. Arithmetical Signs. Glossary. Self-assessment. Answers to questions about labels. Answers to calculations. Answers to self-assessment. Index.