Brown and Mulholland's Drug Calculations

Ratio and Proportion Problems for Clinical Practice
12. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-323-80987-0
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 276 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Trust this market-leading ratio and proportion text that's known for its realistic practice problems and unique "proof" step in the answer key that allows you to double-check your answers to avoid medication errors. This edition continues to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and patient safety with respect to accurate drug dosages. Helpful worksheets, assessment tests, and Clinical Alerts call attention to situations in actual practice that have resulted in drug errors - giving you extensive hands-on practice for the Next Generation NCLEX® and beyond.
-   More than 1,100 ratio and proportion problems offer the extensive practice you need to become proficient in this method of drug calculation.
-   Step-by-step format for each problem includes a unique "proof" step in the answer key to ensure you understand the solution.
-   End-of-chapter practice tools include general worksheets, multiple-choice worksheets, critical thinking exercises, chapter finals, and a chapter answer key.
-   Safe Medication Administration chapter helps you prevent medication errors and understand drug labels, medication administration forms, and provider order forms.
-   Clinical Alerts highlight potential and common drug calculation errors.
-   Full-color drug labels and equipment illustrations provide a realistic representation of medication administration.
-   NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style questions in select chapters include answer keys with rationales for correct answers.
-   NEW! Coverage incorporates the 2020 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals of identifying patients correctly, using medications safely, and preventing infection.
-   UPDATED! The latest drug information throughout reflects current practice.
-   UPDATED! Vocabulary definitions feature the most current terms and advances in drug administration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tritak-Elmiger, Ann

Daingerfield, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pharmakologie in der Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

. General Mathematics

2. Ratio & Proportion

3. Safe Medication Administration

4. Medication Measurements and Oral Dose Calculations

5. Injectable Medication Calculations

6. Reconstitution of Medications form Powders and Crystals: Oral and Intramuscular

7. Basic Intravenous Therapy Calculations

8. Advanced Intravenous Calculations

9. Insulin Administration and Type 2 Diabetes Medications

10. Parenteral Nutrition

11. Anticoagulants

12. Children's Dosages

Multiple Choice Final

Comprehensive Final

Appendices:

ISMP List of High Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings

ISMP's List of Error Prone Abbreviations, Symbols and Dose Designations

Sample Medication Administration Errors

Über Autor(innen)

Tritak-Elmiger, Ann
Ann Tritak, EdD, RN currently Associate Dean - Department of Graduate Nursing and Director DNP Program, Felician University, Lodi, New Jersey. She is also a Professor of Graduate Nursing Faculty. Ann has worked on the resources for the Mulholland: The Nurse, The Math, The Meds, for the 2nd and 3rd editions and she has also contributed chapters to the Potter: Fundamentals of Nursing, 8e, Potter: Essentials of Nursing, 8e and Potter: Basic Nursing, 7e. She has also published several nursing articles in journals such as the Journal of Nursing Staff Development and Nurse Educator

Daingerfield, Margaret
Margaret (Peggy) Daingerfield is currently Associate Professor, Director of the MSN Program. Department of Graduate Nursing, Felician University, Lodi, NJ. She also served as Associate Dean, Director of the DNP Program, Department of Graduate Nursing, School of Nursing, Felician University from 2008-2015. Peggy's strengths are in undergraduate curriculum development and faculty development. They both have taught drug calculations to nursing students throughout their teaching careers