This is a pocket-sized introductory guide to enable nurses to perform drug calculations both confidently and competently, without putting the patient at risk. The text covers everyday calculations encountered by nurses on the wards, including units and equivalents, dosage calculations, percentages and concentrations, as well as moles, millimoles and I.V. calculations. The inclusion of worked examples, detailed explanations and graded exercises promotes easy learning and makes this a practical book to use. The book is suitable for practising and student nurses at all levels, midwives, and student pharmacists.

Drug Calculations for Nurses: A Step by Step Approach

Medical Books

Lapham, Robert

Agar, Heather

Allied Health Professions

CRC-Press

As nurses gain greater responsibility and nurse practitioners become a larger group the pressure on nurses to prescribe accurately and independently increases. At the same time the general view among lecturers is that students of medicine as well as of nursing are arriving at university with increasingly poor basic maths skills, and this is also said to apply to pharmacy students. Students need a practical course textbook that will take them through into the start of their clinical work as a companion to drug prescribing, preparation and delivery. This is the second edition of this pocket-sized introductory guide to performing drug calculations accurately and confidently. Compiled by a pharmacist and a nurse, the book combines the essential theory of pharmacology with the implications for professional practice. It moves from explanations of the simple through to complex formulae relating to the many drugs used today, and includes worked examples plus problems for self-assessment. Unlike many of its competitors, it includes intravenous administration of drugs. New for the second edition: * moves away from hospital bias to include more community issues e.g patient controlled analgesia, and examples; 'how to use this book' completely rewritten * includes more examples of problems and presents the answers separately so they can be used for self-assessment * greatly improved presentation, including 2-colour text design

Drug Calculations for Nurses: A Step-by-Step Approach

Hodder Education Publishers

This handy pocket-sized book will help you to perform drug calculations with confidence and competence. Chapter have been completely updated to include community practice settings, and a whole new section has been added on pharmacology and medicines so that you will understand the context in which you are making drug calculations. The fully revised third edition begins with advice on using calculators, basic math skills, and how to estimate answers. It then progresses onto basic pharmokinetics and therapeutics, explanations of units and drug strengths, and finally step-by-step drug calculations. The book is top and tailed with a pre-test and a revision test so that you can can be confident about the skills you've acquired.

Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step by Step Approach

A Hodder Arnold Publication

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