Practical Nursing Calculations: Getting the Dose Right

ISBN-13: 9781865088747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003

Valda Hext; Lidia Mayner

Opis

This step-by-step guide to calculating correct medication dosages includes an introduction to basic math, exercises and quizzes for practice and self-evaluation, and web material for professors, including test banks and extra practice questions. Real-life scenarios introduce common illnesses and the medications used to treat them, enabling nurses and nursing students to practice calculating appropriate dosages. This guide is designed to increase competency in basic math skills and problem-solving techniques that require applied or conceptual mathematics, ensuing safer care for patients.

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.