Dosage calculations : a multi-method approach / Anthony Patrick Giangrasso, PhD, Professor of Mathematics, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, Dolores Donahue Shrimpton, MA, RN, Professor Emerita of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY.
By: Giangrasso, Anthony Patrick [author.].
Contributor(s): Shrimpton, Dolores M [author.].
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Pearson, ©2018Edition: Second edition.Description: xv, 427 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780134624679 (pbk.).Subject(s): Drug Dosage Calculations | Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosageGenre/Form: Nurses' Instruction | Problems and Exercises | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RS57 .G52 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015207 |
Includes index.
Review of arithmetic for dosage calculations -- Safe and accurate medication administration -- Dimensional analysis and ratio & proportion -- The household and metric systems -- Converting from one system of measurement to another -- Oral medications -- Syringes -- Solutions -- Parenteral medications -- Flow rates and durations of enteral and intravenous infusions -- Flow rates and dosage rates for intravenous medications -- Pediatric dosages.