Clinical Calculations: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas
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Learn to calculate drug dosages safely, accurately, and easily with Kee's Clinical Calculations, 9th Edition This market-leading text covers all four major drug calculation methods, including ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis. It also includes practice problems for both general care as well as specialty areas such as pediatrics, labor and delivery, critical care, and community nursing. With its market-leading, comprehensive coverage; strong emphasis on patient safety; and the incorporation of the latest information on antidiabetic agents, anticoagulant agents, drug administration techniques, and devices; Kee remains the winning choice for easy drug calculation mastery.
Coverage of all four major drug calculation methods includes ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis to help you learn and apply the method that works best for you. The latest information on drug administration techniques and devices helps you master the most up-to-date techniques of drug administration, including oral, intravenous, intra-muscular, subcutaneous, and other routes. Caution boxes provide alerts to problems or issues related to various drugs and their administration. Information on infusion pumps covers enteral, single, multi-channel, PCA, and insulin; and explains their use in drug administration. Calculations for Specialty Areas section addresses the drug calculations needed to practice in pediatric, critical care, labor and delivery, and community settings. Detailed, full-color photos and illustrations show the most current equipment for IV therapy, the latest types of pumps, and the newest syringes. Comprehensive post-test lets you test your knowledge of key concepts from the text. NEW Updated information on Antidiabetic Agents (orals and injectables) has been added throughout the text where appropriate. NEW Updated content on Anticoagulant Agents is housed in an all-new chapter. NEW Colorized abbreviations for the four methods of calculation (BF, RP, FE, and DA) appear in the Example Problems sections. NEW Updated content and patient safety guidelines throughout the text reflects the latest practices and procedures. NEW Updated practice problems across the text incorporate the latest drugs and dosages.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0323625479
ISBN13:9780323625470
Release Date:March 2020
Publisher:Elsevier
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.76 lbs.
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good book.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is a older ed, but almost the same as the lasted ed except some end chapter question.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
this book was mandatory for our 1st semester of nursing school. very helpful and the CD that comes with it will help you with your studies in the nursing field. has a step by step way to solve with worksheets in the chapters to do the problems based on the chapter. pictures were great!! helpful in how it showed wording abbreviations and what not to use as well as simple conversion methods. awesome book!
Clinical Calculations
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The book is very easy to read. It has many pictures to help understand what the medication and equipment look like. It has practice questions too which are helpful when learning how to calculate medications.
So greatful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Thanks this was a product needed for school and I arivedin enough time, thanks again
woo-hoo! learn calculations in no time!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This book made it so easy to learn nursing calculations it was not even funny! I picked up so fast that I finished the entire book in one night. I passed my nursing boards with 75 questions in 30 minutes - and this book really helped!
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