Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Lapham, Robert.

Title Drug calculations for nurses : a step-by-step approach / Robert Lapham, Heather Agar.

Publication Info. London : Hodder Arnold, 2009.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet  WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK R2    Downloadable
University of Saint Joseph patrons, please click here to access this R2 resource.
Edition 3rd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. i. Mathematics. Basics -- Per cent and percentages -- Units and equivalences -- Drug strengths or concentrations -- pt. ii. Performing calculations. Dosage calculations -- Moles and millimoles -- Infusion rate calculations -- pt. iii. Administering medicines. Action and administration medicines -- Infusion devices -- Children and medicines -- The elderly and medicines -- Sources and interpretation of drug information -- Revision test -- Answers to problems set in chapters -- Appendices. Body surfaces area (BSA) estimates ; Weight conversion tables ; Height conversion tables ; Calculations of body mass index (BMI) ; Estimation of renal function ; Abbreviations used in prescriptions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mathematics -- Performing calculations -- Administering medicines.
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Description based on print version record.
Subject Drugs -- Administration.
Nursing.
Drugs -- Dosage -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Nursing -- Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosage -- Nurses' Instruction.
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosage -- Problems and Exercises.
Mathematics -- Nurses' Instruction.
Mathematics -- Problems and Exercises.
Genre/Form Problems, exercises, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423783
Subject Drugs -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst00898763
Drugs -- Dosage. (OCoLC)fst01432036
Nursing. (OCoLC)fst01041731
Nursing -- Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01041789
Added Author Agar, Heather.
ISBN 9780340987339
0340987332
-->
Add a Review