302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Worried about getting the dose wrong? Don't know your fractions from your decimals? You're not alone! Many people are not comfortable with their mathematical abilities but for most it's not a life or death situation. For nurses, however, a 'bad maths day' can have catastrophic consequences if drug dosages are calculated incorrectly. Practical Nursing Calculations provides easy to understand... Read more
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 -
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 -
Biography
Valda Hext is a lecturer in the school of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of South Australia. Lidia Mayner is a registered nurse and lecturer in physiology at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University.
