Medical dosage calculations / June Looby Olsen, Anthony Patrick Giangrasso

Unit 1. Basic Calculation and Administration Skills -- Chapter 1. Review of Arithmetic for Medical Dosage Calculations -- Objectives -- Changing Decimal Numbers and Whole Numbers to Fractions -- Changing Fractions to Decimal Numbers -- Rounding Decimal Numbers -- Multiplying and Dividing Decimal Numbers -- Multiplying and Dividing Fractions -- Complex Fractions -- Percentages -- Practice Sets -- Chapter 2. Drug Administration -- Objectives -- Who Administers Drugs? -- Drug Administration Process -- Right Drug -- Right Dose -- Right Route -- Right Time -- Right Patient -- Drug Orders -- Drug Labels -- Drug Package Inserts -- Medication Administration Records -- Practice Sets -- Chapter 3. Dimensional Analysis -- Objectives -- Practice Sets -- Unit 2. Systems of Measurement for Dosage Calculations -- Chapter 4. Apothecary, Household, and Metric Systems -- Objectives -- Apothecary System -- Liquid Volume in the Apothecary System -- Weight in the Apothecary System -- Roman Numerals -- Household System -- Liquid Volume in the Household System -- Weight in the Household System -- Metric System -- Liquid Volume in the Metric System -- Weight in the Metric System -- Prerequisite Equivalents -- Practice Sets -- Chapter 5. Converting from One System of Measurement to Another -- Objectives -- Equivalents of Common Units of Measurement -- Metric-to-Apothecary Conversions -- Apothecary-to-Metric Conversions -- Household-to-Apothecary or Household-to-Metric Conversions -- Prerequisite Equivalents -- Practice Sets -- Unit 3. Common Medication Preparations -- Chapter 6. Calculating Oral Medication Doses -- Objectives -- One-Step Conversions -- Dosage by Body Weight -- Calculating Dosage by Body Surface Area -- Nomogram -- Multistep Conversions -- Practice Reading Labels -- Practice Sets -- Chapter 7. Syringes -- Objectives --

"As a health care professional, calculating drug dosages is critical. Medical Dosage Calculations, Seventh Edition follows an open and friendly workbook approach using dimensional analysis. There are no formulas to memorize and no complicated problem set ups, and all problems are one or two steps, requiring only basic arithmetic. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

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