Practical nursing calculations : getting the dose right /: getting the dose right. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Valda Hext and Lidia Mayner.
• Authors: Hext, Valda; Mayner, Lidia
• Contents: Nursing Calculations in Context; ; Part I; ; Module 1 - Basic skills; ; * Introductory assessment; ; * Basic mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division; ; * Fractions; ; * The metric system; ; * Practice exercises, scenarios and answers; ; Module 2 - Medications; ; * Oral medications: Tablets and mixtures; ; * Intravenous fluid management and naso-gastric feeding; ; * Parenteral medications; ; * Practice exercises, scenarios and answers; ; Part II; ; Module 3 - Injections; ; * Intravenous bolus dosages, as a 'push', via a volumetric pump; ; * Exercises and scenarios include calculating doses for the following patient conditions; ; Appendicectomy, cholecystectomy, pylonephritis, diabetes and pregnancy, myocardial infarction, alcoholism, infected leg ulcer, CVA, hypertension, abdominal pain, tonsillectomy, epilepsy, ovarian cyst, severe diarrhoea, dehydration, haemorrhoidectomy; ; Module 4 -
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 615.14; Nursing -- Mathematics; Pharmaceutical arithmetic
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000246834
• Related ISBNs: 9781000250633; 9781000254440; 9781003116776
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