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This new edition of Drug Calculations for Nurses teaches healthcare professionals how to perform drug calculations with confidence and competence. It provides step-by-step guidance to carry out accurate drug calculations, with units and drug strengths clearly explained. This bestselling pocket-size book begins with the basic mathematical skills required to perform calculations, including tips on estimating answers. It then covers drug strengths and concentrations, dosage calculations, IV infusion therapies, and pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Separate chapters focus on children, adults and the elderly, addressing specific challenges encountered in these populations, with new content on pregnancy, and renal and liver function. Helpful worked examples, key points, and objectives are included in every chapter, and this new edition includes more calculations for prescribing and patient-focused scenarios
This handy, introductory guide will enable nurses to perform drug calculations both confidently and competently, without putting the patient at risk. The text covers all the everyday calculations encountered by nurses on the wards, including units and equivalents, dosage calculations, percentages and concentrations, as well as moles, millimoles and I.V. calculations. The inclusion of worked examples, detailed explanations and graded exercises promote easy learning and makes this a very practical book to use.