cover image - Math For Clinical Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323094740
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 03-09-2010
Page Count: 656
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $67.99

Math For Clinical Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition

by Denise Macklin, RNC, BSN, CRNI, Cynthia C. Chernecky, PhD, RN, CNS, AOCN, FAAN and Mother Helena Infortuna, MTS, BS

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cover image - Math For Clinical Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323094740
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 03-09-2010
Page Count: 656
Imprint: Mosby
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Covering the ratio and proportion and formula methods, this comprehensive textbook presents a straightforward, real-world approach to the mathematical calculations used in the clinical setting. It features a unique, step-by-step process that teaches you to identify the information needed to perform a calculation, determine if information is missing, set up and perform the calculation, and check the answer to ensure accurracy. This systematic approach is designed to reduce human calculation errors and ensure patient safety. Common medications and methods of administration are used throughout the textbook, with more than 1,200 practice problems to help you master the math needed for clinical practice.

    • All content, examples, problems, and scenarios are clinically based and completely up to date.
    • More than 500 full-color illustrations show drug labels, parenteral and oral syringes, medicine cups, pumps, IV equipment, and more that are used in current clinical practice.
    • Promotes learning with more than 1,200 practice problems and comprehensive math review problems.
    • Safety Alert, Clinical Alert, and Human Error Alert boxes are incorporated throughout to promote safe practice.
    • Clinical Connections begin each chapter and explain how that topic relates to clinical practice.
    • Examples for each new topic are presented in a unique, step-by-step format: the prescription, what you HAVE, what you KNOW, what you WANT, critical thinking, answer for best care, human error check boxes, and does your answer fit the general guideline? Practice problems follow each set of examples to reinforce your understanding.
    • Follows current TJC and ISMP safety recommendations.
    • Answer key is new to this edition and provides immediate feedback for practice problems.
    • Features the latest drug information in practice problems and photographs.
  • Section I: Renewing Math Skills

    1. Decimals: Relative Value, Addition, and Subtraction
    2. Decimals: Multiplication and Division
    3. Fractions: Reduction and Equations

    Section II: Systems of Measurement

    4. Units of Measure
    5. Conversion

    Section III: Calculations for the Clinical Setting

    6. Percentages
    7. Ratio and Proportion
    8. Body Weight

    Section IV: Reading Medication Labels and Using Syringes

    9. Using Syringes
    10. Oral Medications
    11. Parenteral Medications
    12. Reconstituting Medications

    Section V: Methods of Administering Medications
    13. Unit Dose, Card System, and Computerized Medication System
    14. Medication Records

    Section VI: Intravenous Fluid Calculations

    15. Introduction to Intravenous Therapy

    Section VII: Unique Calculations

    16. Calculating Intravenous Heparin Dosages
    17. Insulin
    18. Calculating Sliding Scale Insulin Dosage
    19. Intake and Output

    Section VIII: Calculations in Special Care Units
    20. Oncology
    21. Pediatrics
    22. Intensive Care Unit

    Answer Key
    Index
  • Denise Macklin, RNC, BSN, CRNI, President, Professional Learning Systems, Inc., Marietta, GA, Cynthia C. Chernecky, PhD, RN, CNS, AOCN, FAAN, Professor, Department of Physiological and Technological Nursing, School of Nursing, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA and Mother Helena Infortuna, MTS, BS, Saints Mary and Martha Orthodox Monastery, Wagener, SC
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