Product Description
Now in its Fifth Edition, this best-selling text features a highly visual, hands-on approach to learning dosage calculations and principles of drug administration. It presents step-by-step approaches to solving problems and includes dosage problems that simulate actual clinical experience. Each chapter includes numerous examples, self-tests, and proficiency tests.
This edition covers all four dosage calculation methods—formula, ratio, and proportion side by side in each chapter, and dimensional analysis in a new chapter. Drug labels are current, and problems use JCAHO-approved abbreviations. A handy quick-reference plastic pull-out card shows conversions and formulas.
A bound-in CD-ROM contains dosage calculation problems and a medication administration video.
Book Info
Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston. Workbook is a practical review of basic math skills, dosage calculations, and the fundamentals of safe and effective drug administration. Covers the formula and the ratio-proportion methods, critical thinking case studies, CD-ROM with extra practice. Previous edition: c1999. Three-hole punched perforated pages.
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