Math for nurses : a pocket guide to dosage calculations & drug preparation
- 5th ed.
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2002.
- xvi, 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
"A pocket-size laminated insert card: 'Containing approximate system equivalents and conversions formulas...' will be found inside the back cover." Includes index.
Preassessment test : mathematics skills review -- Fractions-- Decimals -- Percents, ratio, and proportion -- The metric, household, and apothecary systems of measurement -- Approximate equivalents and system conversions -- Medication labels -- Oral dosage calculations -- Parenteral dosage calculations -- Intravenous therapy -- Intravenous therapies : critical care applications -- Insulin -- Heparin preparation and dosage calculations : subcutaneous and intravenous -- Pediatric dosage calculations and intravenous therapy -- Solutions and drug reconstitution.