How to Master Nursing Calculations Improve Your Maths and Make Sense of Drug Dosage Charts 2nd Edition by Chris John Tyreman 9780749467548 0749467541

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ISBN 10: 0749467541
ISBN 13: 9780749467548 
Author: Chris John Tyreman

For the maths-phobic, this 2nd edition of the best-selling How to Master Nursing Calculations, is ideal practice for learning key numeracy skills. The perfect companion for your training and in the first few crucial years of your career, it builds your competency through practice, revision and every day examples. Contents includes a review of the basics, clear illustrations of instrument scales, medical administration records and pharmaceutical labels as well as a detailed guide to reading drug dosage charts. Including a brand new list of important abbreviations and a section on how to make drug calculations without equations – requiring little mathematical knowledge – How to Master Nursing Calculations, 2nd edition, will help you master complex dosages and turn you into a maths whiz.

How to Master Nursing Calculations Improve Your Maths and Make Sense of Drug Dosage Charts 2nd Table of contents:

1. Basic Arithmetic Skills

• How to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers
• Sequence of operations (‘BoDMAS’)
• Factors and multiples
• Chapter 1 questions

2. Fractions and Decimals

• Introduction to fractions
• Cancelling (equivalent fractions)
• How to add and subtract fractions
• How to multiply and divide fractions
• Improper fractions
• Mixed fractions
• Multiplication and division of fractions by whole numbers
• How to cross-cancel fractions
• Introduction to decimals
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals
• How to round decimal numbers
• Conversion of decimals to fractions
• Conversion of fractions to decimals
• How to work out percentages
• How to express numbers as percentages
• Chapter 2 questions

3. Measurement

• The metric system of measurement (SI units)
• Weight
• Choosing the best units for your answer
• Volume
• Time
• Reading instrument scales
• Chapter 3 questions

4. Drug Dosage Calculations

• Oral medications
• Injections
• Infusions, the giving set and drop rates
• Concentration
• Changing the infusion rate
• Calculating the prescribed dose in infusions
• Chapter 4 questions

5. Drug Administration

• Equation-free drug calculations
• Abbreviations
• Prescription awareness
• Drug familiarity
• How to read tables and drug charts
• Treatment sheet questions

6. Mock Tests

• Introduction to the tests
• Nursing numerical test
• Guide to the mock tests
• Nursing calculation mock test 1
• Nursing calculation mock test 2
• Nursing calculation mock test 3
• Answers to tests

Appendices

• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3

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