Calculating Drug Doses Safely

A Handbook For Nurses and Midwives

George Downie, MSc, FRPharmS, F(Hon)CPP, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
Jean Mackenzie, BA(Open), DipN(Lond), Formerly Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
Arthur Williams, OBE, FRPharmS, Formerly Chief Administrative Pharmaceutical Officer, Grampian Orkney, Shetland and Tayside Health Boards, Aberdeen, UK

This book is designed to help nurses make accurate drug calculations and improve patient safety. It is written in an accessible style to make learning as easy as possible. The simple, clear and friendly approach will be a major help to anyone who hates maths. Real examples from prescriptions and medicine labels are used to simulate actual practice and help make the link with the theory. The range of specialties covered makes the content relevant to all areas of nursing practice.

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Paperback, 216 Pages

Published: July 2010

Imprint: Churchill Livingstone

ISBN: 978-0-7020-3184-7

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why this book is needed
How to use this book
Pre-test
Section 1 What you require to do a drug calculation
1 Prescriptions, labels and SI units
2 Arithmetic
Questions on Section 1
Section 2 How to do a drug calculation
3 Drug calculations explained
4 Calculating oral and other non-parenteral doses
5 Calculating parenteral doses: small volume
6 Calculating parenteral doses: large volume
Questions on Section 2
Section 3 How to do a drug calculation in special situations
7 Calculating in obstetrics
8 Calculating in paediatrics
9 Calculations in liver disease and renal impairment
Supporting information
A Abbreviations
B Arithmetical signs
C Glossary
D Answers to section questions
E Answers to calculation exercises
F Post-test
G Answers to post-test
Index

Calculating Drug Doses Safely

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