Gloria D. Pickar, Amy Pickar-Abernethy

Dosage Calculations: A Ratio-Proportion Approach (Book Only)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An excellent resource for anyone in or entering the field, market-leading DOSAGE CALCULATIONS: A RATIO-PROPORTION APPROACH, fourth edition, teaches you how to reduce errors and build your confidence in dosage calculation. It carefully examines both basic and advanced calculations, including intravenous medications and those specific to the pediatric patient. Extremely reader friendly, the book includes a comprehensive math review and a unique three-step method of calculating dosages that trains you to approach calculations logically. The new fourth edition reflects the latest drugs and protocol, regulations on medication abbreviations, medication administration technologies, and safe medication practices. Clinical simulations and Clinical Reasoning Skills scenarios based on QSEN principles help sharpen your clinical reasoning skills, while Section Examinations help prepare you for your future with test items formatted like graduate licensure examinations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cengage Learning
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 216mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9781285429502
• ISBN-10: 1285429508
• Artikelnr.: 41093268

Autorenporträt

Gloria D. Pickar, R.N., Ed.D., is President and Chief Academic Officer of Compass Knowledge Group in Orlando, Florida. She is a former Academic Dean at Seminole State College in Sanford, Florida. She is also the author of nine editions of best-selling DOSAGE CALCULATIONS.