Nursing Calculations

by John D. Gatford (Author), Christine Henderson MA MTD DPHE DipN(Lond RN (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  The ability to calculate and check drug doses quickly and accurately is a skill every nurse must acquire. This book is designed to help the student nurse acquire this skill and to refresh and update the skills of nurses returning to the profession. The book reviews the arithmetic fundamental to drug calculations. Using examples, explanations and practice questions (with answers) it covers the calculations required to administer injections, tablets and mixtures; to dilute solutions; to arrive at drip rates; and to administer paediatric doses safely. It puts calculations in the context of on the ward drug-dispensing situations.

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

  This book was written at the request of nurse educators and with considerable help from them. It deals with elements of the arithmetic of nursing, especially the arithmetic of basic pharmacology. The book begins with a diagnostic test which is carefully related to a set of review exercises in basic arithmetic. Answers to the test are supplied at the back of the book and are keyed to the corresponding review exercises. Students should work through those exercises which correspond to errors in the diagnostic test. The other exercises may also, of course, be worked through to improve speed and accuracy. Throughout the other chapters of the book there are adequate, well graded exercise and problems. Each chapter includes several worked examples. Answers are given to all questions.