2nd Edition
Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare Calculations and Practice
By Pearl Shihab
Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Do you find maths challenging?
Do you struggle with drug calculations or clinical applications of numeracy?
If you need to brush up your maths skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is the perfect textbook to help you through your nursing programme. The text starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration,... Read more
Introduction 1. Basic Arithmetic Skills 2. Decimals and Other Fractions 3. SI Units 4. Drug Calculations 5. Drug Concentrations 6. Per Cent, Percentage and Ratios 7. Intravenous Fluid and Drug Administration 8. Common Clinical Measurements 9. Physiological Measurements 10. Statistics and Reading Research Articles Appendices Glossary
Biography
Pearl Shihab has wide experience of nursing and midwifery in both hospital and community settings. She has spent the last fourteen years teaching biosciences on healthcare programmes and supporting students lacking in maths skills.
