Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (May 10, 2024) © 2024

  • Kerry Reid-Searl Central Queensland University
  • Trudy Dwyer Central Queensland University
  • Lorna Moxham Central Queensland University
  • Jo Reid-Speirs Education Queensland
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  • Pocket-sized guide
  • Mapped to MSQHS and NMBA Standards

A pocket-sized guide that supports nursing students in the correct and safe administration of medications in clinical settings.

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Nursing Student's Maths & Medications Survival Guide is not rivalled by anything else on the market. This quick-reference guide supports students with information to accurately calculate drug doses and measure medications, when and where they need it.

Whether used individually by nursing students through their education and into early practice or as an educator-prescribed tool to complement a text such as Bullock's Fundamentals of Pharmacology, Maths & Medications Survival Guide supports students to deliver safe and person-centred care in clinical practice.

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  • INTRODUCTION
  • MATHS REVISITED
  • Mathematical symbols
  • Order of operations
  • Applying addition and subtraction to fluid balance charts
  • Number fact grids
  • Time
  • Fractions, decimal and percentage conversions
  • The base system
  • The decimal point
  • Revisiting basic algorithm
  • Working with fractions
  • Percentages
  • Rounding
  • The metric system
  • HANDY TABLES INVOLVING MEASUREMENT
  • Paediatrics
  • Rule of nines
  • Body Mass Index (BMI)
  • FORMULAS USED IN HEALTH CARE
  • Calculating dosage using a formula
  • Standard medication charts
  • The medication order
  • The medication label
  • Telephone orders of prescription drugs
  • Frequency and times of medication administration
  • Commonly used abbreviations
  • APPLYING DRUG CALCULATIONS USING FORMULAS
  • Calculating oral medications
  • Calculating parenteral medications
  • INTRAVENOUS THERAPY
  • Fluid redistribution properties
  • The legal fluid order
  • The legal additive label
  • Abbreviations for intravenous fluids
  • Calculating intravenous fluid rates
  • Electronic infusions
  • HIGH-RISK MEDICATIONS
  • INSULIN
  • Subcutaneous insulin administration
  • HEPARIN AND OTHER ANTICOAGULANTS
  • Heparin
  • Warfarin
  • Other oral anticoagulants
  • THE PROCESS OF MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
  • The 'six rights' and 'more'
  • Preventing medication errors

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