Dosage calculations for nurses
By: June L. Olsen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Olsen, June Looby.
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall; Pearson Education Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Harlow, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780132068840
Subjects: Pharmaceutical arithmetic; Nursing -- Mathematics; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosage -- Nurses' Instruction; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosage -- Problems and Exercises; Mathematics -- Nurses' Instruction; Mathematics -- Problems and Exercises
Genres: Nurses' Instruction; Problems and Exercises
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Review of arithmetic skills for medical dosage calculations; title: Safe and accurate drug administration; title: Changing units of measurements; title: The metric measurement system; title: Calculating oral medication doses; title: Syringes; title: Solutions and drug strengths or concentrations; title: Parenteral medications; title: Calculating flow rates and durations of enteral and intravenous infusions; title: Calculating flow rates for intravenous medications; title: Calculating paediatric dosages.