Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series)

by Springhouse (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $6.91

  This entertaining guide is now more fun, more up-to-date, and even easier to use - an indispensable resource for nurses who want to take the stress out of dosage calculations. New to this edition are a chapter on dimensional analysis; numerous lighthearted learning aids called 'Cheat Sheets'; and 'Practice Makes Perfect' - case study questions and answers that let nurses assess their progress. Contents include math basics; measurement systems; drug orders and administration records; calculating oral, topical, and rectal drug dosages; calculating parenteral injections and I.V. infusions; and calculating pediatric, obstetric, and critical care dosages.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $5.96

  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.