Drug calculations for nurses
Subtitle: a step-by-step approach
By: Robert Lapham, Heather Agar
Contributors: Agar, Heather
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780340987339
Subjects: Pharmaceutical arithmetic; Mathematics; Problems, exercises; Nursing
Description: This handy, introductory guide will enable nurses to perform drug calculations both confidently and competently. It includes worked examples, detailed explanations and graded exercises to promote easy learning.
Notes: Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 2003.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. i. Mathematics. Basics; title: Per cent and percentages; title: Units and equivalences; title: Drug strengths or concentrations; title: pt. ii. Performing calculations. Dosage calculations; title: Moles and millimoles; title: Infusion rate calculations; title: pt. iii. Administering medicines. Action and administration medicines; title: Infusion devices; title: Children and medicines; title: The elderly and medicines; title: Sources and interpretation of drug information; title: Revision test; title: Answers to problems set in chapters; title: Appendices. Body surfaces area (BSA) estimates ; Weight conversion tables ; Height conversion tables ; Calculations of body mass index (BMI) ; Estimation of renal function ; Abbreviations used in prescriptions.