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Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!

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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.

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9781605471976
9781605471976

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Publication date
2009
Issue number
4
Cover
paperback
Pages count
384
Dimensions (mm)
191 x 235
Weight (g)
635
  • 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

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