Calculation of medication dosages practical strategies to ensure safety and accuracy
This text equips nurses with the decision making skills to ensure that medication dosages are calculated correctly and administered safely. The book integrates critical thinking and decision making into the dosage calculation process and uses a realistic case study approach, with photos of nurses, p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2008
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Add Tag | Summary: | This text equips nurses with the decision making skills to ensure that medication dosages are calculated correctly and administered safely. The book integrates critical thinking and decision making into the dosage calculation process and uses a realistic case study approach, with photos of nurses, patients, tablets, solutions, syringes, injectables, and drug labels. The formula method and ratio and proportion method are both presented for all problems, and a separate appendix explains the dimensional analysis method. Tables of equivalents, formulas, and Abbreviations used in medication orders appear on the inside cover. A pocket card with common measurements and conversions is included |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 324 pages color illustrations 28 cm 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 inch) |
| ISBN: | 9780781758543 0781758548 |
Medical dosage calculations