Drug Calculations for Nurses: A Step by Step Approach

by HeatherAgar (Author), RobertWilliamLapham (Author), RobertLapham (Author), HeatherAgar (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.80

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.40

  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. This 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; and greatly improved presentation, including 2-colour text design.