Learn how to safely, accurately, and confidently calculate medication dosages! Brown and Mulholland’s Drug Calculations: Ratio and Proportion Problems for Clinical Practice is recognized for its realistic practice problems and unique “proof” step in the answer key, which allows you to double-check your answers and avoid medication errors. Helpful worksheets and assessment tests allow you to gauge your progress, while Clinical Alerts call attention to situations in actual practice that have resulted in drug errors. This edition continues to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and patient safety with updates related to safe medication administration, new medications and drug labels, and updated Next-Generation NCLEX® practice problems and case studies.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. YOU'VE JUST PURCHASEDMORE THAN A TEXTBOOK! - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. i 6. Reviewer - p. vi 7. Preface - p. vi 8. Acknowledgments - p. x 9. General Mathematics Self-Assessment - p. xi 10. List of Illustrations - p. 4 11. List of Tables - p. 4 12. Capítulo 1: General Mathematics - p. 4 13. Capítulo 2: Ratio and Proportion - p. 39 14. Capítulo 3: Safe Medication Administration - p. 56 15. Capítulo 4: Medication Measurements and Oral Dose Calculations - p. 100 16. Capítulo 5: Injectable Medication Calculations - p. 148 17. Capítulo 6: Reconstitution of Medications From Powders and Crystals: Oral and Intramuscular - p. 184 18. Capítulo 7: Basic Intravenous Therapy Calculations - p. 234 19. Capítulo 8: Advanced Intravenous Calculations - p. 278 20. Capítulo 9: Insulin Administration and Type 2 Diabetes Medications - p. 311 21. Capítulo 10: Parenteral Nutrition - p. 364 22. Capítulo 11: Anticoagulants - p. 394 23. Capítulo 12: Pediatric Dosages - p. 432 24. Multiple-Choice Final - p. 469 25. Comprehensive Final - p. 480 26. ISMP List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings - p. 496 27. ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations - p. 497 28. Sample Medication Administration Errors With Potential Clinical Outcomes - p. 506 29. 5-Minute Sample Verbal Communication From Nurses to Subsequent Caregivers - p. 508 30. Index - p. 510
Learn how to safely, accurately, and confidently calculate medication dosages! Brown and Mulholland’s Drug Calculations: Ratio and Proportion Problems for Clinical Practice is recognized for its realistic practice problems and unique “proof” step in the answer key, which allows you to double-check your answers and avoid medication errors. Helpful worksheets and assessment tests allow you to gauge your progress, while Clinical Alerts call attention to situations in actual practice that have resulted in drug errors. This edition continues to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and patient safety with updates related to safe medication administration, new medications and drug labels, and updated Next-Generation NCLEX® practice problems and case studies.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. YOU'VE JUST PURCHASEDMORE THAN A TEXTBOOK! - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. i 6. Reviewer - p. vi 7. Preface - p. vi 8. Acknowledgments - p. x 9. General Mathematics Self-Assessment - p. xi 10. List of Illustrations - p. 4 11. List of Tables - p. 4 12. Capítulo 1: General Mathematics - p. 4 13. Capítulo 2: Ratio and Proportion - p. 39 14. Capítulo 3: Safe Medication Administration - p. 56 15. Capítulo 4: Medication Measurements and Oral Dose Calculations - p. 100 16. Capítulo 5: Injectable Medication Calculations - p. 148 17. Capítulo 6: Reconstitution of Medications From Powders and Crystals: Oral and Intramuscular - p. 184 18. Capítulo 7: Basic Intravenous Therapy Calculations - p. 234 19. Capítulo 8: Advanced Intravenous Calculations - p. 278 20. Capítulo 9: Insulin Administration and Type 2 Diabetes Medications - p. 311 21. Capítulo 10: Parenteral Nutrition - p. 364 22. Capítulo 11: Anticoagulants - p. 394 23. Capítulo 12: Pediatric Dosages - p. 432 24. Multiple-Choice Final - p. 469 25. Comprehensive Final - p. 480 26. ISMP List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings - p. 496 27. ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations - p. 497 28. Sample Medication Administration Errors With Potential Clinical Outcomes - p. 506 29. 5-Minute Sample Verbal Communication From Nurses to Subsequent Caregivers - p. 508 30. Index - p. 510
