Full Description
DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONStoday's leading methods of dosage calculation: Dimensional Analysis, Ratio & Proportion, and Formula. It walks step-by-step through solving dosage problems utilizing all three methods, often comparing multiple approaches to solving the same problem side-by-side. Instructors can choose their preferred method, and students can become expert with all three, ultimately choosing the approach they find most efficient. Unit I offers a diagnostic arithmetic test, reviews basic math skills, presents essentials of medication administration, and offers an easy, common sense introduction to dimensional analysis. Next, the text introduces essential metric and household medication systems and conversions. Then, building on these foundations, the text offers in-depth coverage of calculating oral, parenteral, intravenous, and enteral dosages, including flow rates, titrating IV medications, pediatric dosages, and daily fluid maintenance.
Contents
Unit 1. Basic Calculation Skills and Introduction to Medication Administration1. Review of Arithmetic for Dosage Calculations2. Safe and Accurate Drug Administration3. Dimensional Analysis and Ratio & ProportionUnit 2. Systems of Measurement4. The Household and Metric Systems5. Converting from One System of Measurement to AnotherUnit 3. Oral and Parenteral Medications6. Oral Medications 7. Syringes8. Solutions9. Parenteral MedicationsUnit 4. Infusions and Pediatric Dosages10. Flow Rates and Durations of Enteral and Intravenous Infusions11. Flow Rates and Dosage Rates for Intravenous Medications12. Pediatric DosagesComprehensive Self-TestsAppendix A Answer SectionAppendix B ISMP Tall Man Lettering ListAppendix C Commonly Used AbbreviationsAppendix D Units of Measurement in the Household and Metric SystemsAppendix E Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature ConversionAppendix F Diluting Stock SolutionsAppendix G Apothecary SystemIndex
