Clinical Calculations - Revised Reprint: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas
Kee MS RN, Joyce LeFever; Marshall RN MSN, Sally M.
Language: English
Published by Saunders, 2004
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- Title
- Clinical Calculations - Revised Reprint: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas
- Author
- Kee MS RN, Joyce LeFever; Marshall RN MSN, Sally M.
- Publisher
- Saunders
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1416031774
- ISBN 13
- 9781416031772
- Edition
- 5th.
- Coverage includes drug calculation problems in pediatrics, critical care, labor and delivery, and the community setting.
- Material includes the most up-to-date, commonly used drugs in "real world" clinical practice.
- Content presents information on infusion pumps (enteral, single, multi-channel, PCA, and insulin) to help readers understand their increased use in drug administration.
- Caution boxes alert readers to possible problems and issues related to drugs and their administration.
- A comprehensive posttest at the end of the text allows readers to test their knowledge of all major topics covered in the text.
- The dimensional analysis calculation method, which is being used increasingly in nursing programs, has been added to the examples of drug dosing and to the answers to the practice problems.
- Interpretation of Drug Labels, Drug Orders, Charting, "5 Rights," and Abbreviations chapter offers the latest information on the use of bar codes with drug delivery, computer-based medication administration systems, and the role/responsibility of the nurse with respect to these new systems.
- Body Weight and Body Surface Area section discusses these two methods of calculating drug dosages primarily used with cancer patients and pediatric patients, in addition to the four main methods.
- Vivid illustrations provide visual aids in understanding the latest types of pumps (insulin, enteral fusion, and intravenous fusion pumps).
- Coverage of needleless adapters has been incorporated into the material throughout the book.
- Intravenous Preparations with Clinical Application chapter includes photographs of the latest equipment for IV drug therapy.
- Additional practice problems on oral liquid medications have been added to the Oral and Enteral Preparations with Clinical Applications section.
- Additional drug practice problems have been added throughout the text.
- A new Companion CD-ROM, packaged with each copy of the text, includes over 500 practice problems, interactive exercises, a comprehensive post-test, plus much more!
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