Practical Nursing Calculations: Getting the Dose Right

ISBN-13: 9780367718992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 302 str.

Valda Hext; Lidia Mayner

Opis

A step-by-step guide to calculating the correct medication dosages. Using realistic hospital scenarios, this is a must for undergraduate nursing students.

Spis treści

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 -

O autorze

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.