Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781582551340
• ISBN10: 1582551340
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-27
• Publisher: Spring House

Summary

This entertaining guide is now more fun, more up-to-date, and even easier to use-an indispensable resource for nurses who want to take the stress out of dosage calculations. New to this edition are a chapter on dimensional analysis; numerous lighthearted learning aids called "Cheat Sheets"; and "Practice Makes Perfect"-case study questions and answers that let nurses assess their progress. Contents include math basics; measurement systems; drug orders and administration records; calculating oral, topical, and rectal drug dosages; calculating parenteral injections and I.V. infusions; and calculating pediatric, obstetric, and critical care dosages.

Table of Contents

Contributors and consultants	iv
Foreword	v
Part I Math basics
Fractions	3	(22)
Decimals and percentages	25	(20)
Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X	45	(20)
Dimensional analysis	65	(12)
Part II Measurement systems
Metric system	77	(14)
Alternative measurement systems	91	(18)
Part III Recording drug administration
Drug orders	109	(12)
Administration records	121	(14)
Part IV Oral, topical, and rectal drugs
Calculating oral drug dosages	135	(28)
Calculating topical and rectal drug dosages	163	(12)
Part V Parenteral administration
Calculating parenteral injections	175	(30)
Calculating I.V. infusions	205	(30)
Part VI Special calculations
Calculating pediatric dosages	235	(20)
Calculating obstetric drug dosages	255	(14)
Calculating critical care dosages	269
Appendices and index
Practice makes perfect	284
Glossary	302
Index	305