Math for clinical practice /
Macklin, Denise.
Math for clinical practice / Denise Macklin, Cynthia Chernecky, Mother Helena Infortuna. - St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Mosby, c2005. - xviii, 620 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 2 CD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.)
Includes index. CD-ROMs are titled: Daugherty & Romans drug calculations student CD-ROM, version III and Answer key for Math for clinical practice. System requirements for accompanying disks: Windows 95 or higher; Pentium II or faster; 64 MB RAM or more; 10 MB hard disk space; 48X or faster CD-ROM drive.
Reviewing math skills -- Decimals : relative value, addition, and subtraction -- Decimals : multiplication and division -- Fractions : reduction and equations -- Section II : Systems of measurement -- Units of measure -- Comprehensive review -- Conversion -- Calculations for the clinical setting -- Percentage -- Ratio-proportion method -- Formula method -- Body weight -- Reading medication labels and using syringes -- Using syringes -- Oral medications -- Parenteral medications -- Reconstituting medications -- Methods of administering medications -- Unit dose, card system, and computerized medication administration system -- Medication records -- Intravenous fluid calculations -- Introduction to intravenous therapy -- Intravenous flow rate calculations -- Unique calculations -- Calculating intravenous heparin dosages -- Insulin -- Calculating sliding-scale regular insulin dosages -- Intake and output -- Calculations in special care units -- Oncology -- Pediatrics -- Intensive care unit. Section I : Section III : Section IV : Section V : Section VI : Section VII : Section VIII :
"Math for Clinical Practice helps you learn the mathematical principles that are important in the clinical setting and then allows you to apply them to real-world examples of drug calculations. In addition, hundreds of practice problems based on actual patient-care scenarios are available to help you reinforce your understanding of these principles."--BOOK JACKET.
032302582X 9780323025829
2012360782
Pharmaceutical arithmetic--Problems, exercises, etc.
Clinical medicine--Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
Mathematics--Problems and Exercises.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--administration & dosage--Problems and Exercises.
Arithmétique pharmaceutique--Problèmes et exercices.
Médecine clinique--Mathématiques--Problèmes et exercices.
RS57 / .M33 2005
615/.401513
Math for clinical practice / Denise Macklin, Cynthia Chernecky, Mother Helena Infortuna. - St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Mosby, c2005. - xviii, 620 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 2 CD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.)
Includes index. CD-ROMs are titled: Daugherty & Romans drug calculations student CD-ROM, version III and Answer key for Math for clinical practice. System requirements for accompanying disks: Windows 95 or higher; Pentium II or faster; 64 MB RAM or more; 10 MB hard disk space; 48X or faster CD-ROM drive.
Reviewing math skills -- Decimals : relative value, addition, and subtraction -- Decimals : multiplication and division -- Fractions : reduction and equations -- Section II : Systems of measurement -- Units of measure -- Comprehensive review -- Conversion -- Calculations for the clinical setting -- Percentage -- Ratio-proportion method -- Formula method -- Body weight -- Reading medication labels and using syringes -- Using syringes -- Oral medications -- Parenteral medications -- Reconstituting medications -- Methods of administering medications -- Unit dose, card system, and computerized medication administration system -- Medication records -- Intravenous fluid calculations -- Introduction to intravenous therapy -- Intravenous flow rate calculations -- Unique calculations -- Calculating intravenous heparin dosages -- Insulin -- Calculating sliding-scale regular insulin dosages -- Intake and output -- Calculations in special care units -- Oncology -- Pediatrics -- Intensive care unit. Section I : Section III : Section IV : Section V : Section VI : Section VII : Section VIII :
"Math for Clinical Practice helps you learn the mathematical principles that are important in the clinical setting and then allows you to apply them to real-world examples of drug calculations. In addition, hundreds of practice problems based on actual patient-care scenarios are available to help you reinforce your understanding of these principles."--BOOK JACKET.
032302582X 9780323025829
2012360782
Pharmaceutical arithmetic--Problems, exercises, etc.
Clinical medicine--Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
Mathematics--Problems and Exercises.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--administration & dosage--Problems and Exercises.
Arithmétique pharmaceutique--Problèmes et exercices.
Médecine clinique--Mathématiques--Problèmes et exercices.
RS57 / .M33 2005
615/.401513