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A Handbook for Nurses and Midwives
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By
George Downie, MSc, FRPharmS, F(Hon)CPP, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
Jean Mackenzie, BA(Open), RGN, SCM, DipN(Lond), RCT, RNT, 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
Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The book was developed in response to
the increasing complexity of drug therapy, the need to avoid drug errors and to achieve patient safety and effective risk management
measures. It will appeal to both pre-registration students and registered nurses. Nurses returning to practice will find it especially
useful.
Contents
Introduction: Why this book is needed.
1. Methods of expressing strengths of medicines
2. Essential arithmetic
3. How to do
a drug calculation
4. Calculating oral and other non-injectable doses
5. Calculating parenteral doses
Appendices: Abbreviations.
Arithmetical Signs. Glossary. Self-assessment. Answers to questions about labels. Answers to calculations. Answers to self-assessment.
Index.
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Paperback, 160 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07460-8
ISBN-10: 0-443-07460-7
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 3 Oct 2009
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