num_pages: 496
description: The fifth edition of this popular workbook provides an excellent reference and self-study guide to help students and beginning practicing nurses master the critical skills required to competently and confidently calculate drug dosages. This interactive workbook features an extensive review of mathematics, and presents the two most common methods of calculation - ratio and proportion, and formula. The book's consistent chapter organization, pretests, and post-tests, make it ideal for classroom use or for self-directed, independent study.Updated to reflect current practice, this new edition features: 
   An extensive math review to evaluate and improve basic skills 
   More than two thousand exercises and problems, many of which include a short case scenario to simulate practice and bring the material to life 
   A new full-color design, for greater visual impact and clinical simulation 
   Over 180 actual drug labels, many of which are presented in full color, to add visual appeal and simulate practice 
   Many new full-color illustrations of syringes and other items used in drug administration, to simulate the clinical setting 
   A new chapter, "How to Read Drug Labels," which helps students locate and understand all information on the drug label 
   A new chapter,"Home Care Considerations," which reflects the growing importance of this setting in contemporary health care 
   A new comprehensive post-test, based on clinical scenarios, to help students measure their progress upon completing the book 
 
language: English
title: Radcliff and Ogden's Calculation of Drug Dosages: An Interactive Workbook
titlecomplete: Radcliff and Ogden's Calculation of Drug Dosages: An Interactive Workbook
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Mosby-Year Book