Drug calculations for nurses : a step-by-step approach /

This handy, introductory guide will enable nurses to perform drug calculations both confidently and competently. It includes worked examples, detailed explanations and graded exercises to promote easy learning.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lapham, Robert
Otros Autores: Agar, Heather
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hodder Arnold, ©2009.
Edición:3rd ed.
Temas:
Pharmaceutical arithmetic > Problems, exercises, etc.
Nursing > Mathematics > Problems, exercises, etc.
Drugs > Dosage.
Mathematics.
Pharmaceutical Preparations > administration & dosage
Mathematics
Arithmétique pharmaceutique > Problèmes et exercices.
Posologie.
Mathématiques.
MEDICAL > Drug Guides.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
MEDICAL > Pharmacy.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Pharmacology.
Drugs > Dosage
Nursing > Mathematics
Pharmaceutical arithmetic
Nurses Instruction
Problems and Exercises
exercise books.
Problems and exercises
Problems and exercises.
Problèmes et exercices.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. i. Mathematics. Basics
  • Per cent and percentages
  • Units and equivalences
  • Drug strengths or concentrations
  • pt. ii. Performing calculations. Dosage calculations
  • Moles and millimoles
  • Infusion rate calculations
  • pt. iii. Administering medicines. Action and administration medicines
  • Infusion devices
  • Children and medicines
  • The elderly and medicines
  • Sources and interpretation of drug information
  • Revision test
  • Answers to problems set in chapters
  • Appendices. Body surfaces area (BSA) estimates ; Weight conversion tables ; Height conversion tables ; Calculations of body mass index (BMI) ; Estimation of renal function ; Abbreviations used in prescriptions.

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