Calculating Drug Doses Safely

A Handbook for Nurses and Midwives

George Downie, Jean Mackenzie, Arthur Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2005
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-07460-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Developed in response to the complexity of drug therapy, the need to avoid drug errors, and to achieve patient safety and effective risk management measures. This book is meant for pre-registration students and registered nurses as well as nurses returning to practice.

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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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2005
• Zusatzinfo: Approx. 150 illustrations
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 234 x 156 mm
• Gewicht: 1000 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• ISBN-10: 0-443-07460-7 / 0443074607
• ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07460-8 / 9780443074608
• Zustand: Neuware