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| Calculation of Drug Dosages: A Work Text | 
| Author: Sheila J. Ogden
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
List Price: $56.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 173140
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 032304588X
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.14
EAN: 9780323045889
ASIN: 032304588X
Publication Date: March 12, 2007
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Product Description
Gain the practical skills you need to competently and confidently calculate drug dosages, even if you dislike math. All it takes is practice - and Calculation of Drug Dosages, 8th Edition gives you the most practice of any drug calculation book available! First, it provides an extensive review of essential math concepts before introducing and clearly explaining the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods of drug calculation. The book's popular "worktext" format builds on concepts as you go and reinforces what you learn with over 2,000 practice problems in the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM.
- An extensive math review reinforces basic math skills that are essential for accurate drug dosage calculation. Once you've identified your strengths and weaknesses on the pretest, it's easy to work toward improving specific competencies.
- Chapter worksheets provide ample opportunities to practice solving realistic problems.
- Posttests at the end of most chapters help you assess your understanding of chapter content.
- Content is organized in a progression from simple to complex, building on prior knowledge and applying it to new material so you retain more of what you've learned.
- A Comprehensive Posttest at the end of the book provides additional practice and accurately gauges your understanding of key concepts.
- Learning objectives explain what you should have accomplished upon completion of each chapter.
- A glossary in the back of the book defines important terms.
- An answer key provides step-by-step solutions for practice problems presented in the worksheets and posttests, shown in both the ratio and proportion and formula methods. Answers only are provided for the comprehensive posttest.
- Current Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recommendations emphasize the importance of avoiding ambiguous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that could result in medication errors.
- The Safety in Medication Administration chapter helps you reduce the possibility of medical errors or injuries by providing information on specific measures to take to protect your patients.
- More than 200 practice problems have been added to this edition for even more practice, bringing the total number of problems to over 2,000.
- Additional content on calculating medications for neonates based on weight in grams helps you accurately calculate dosages for low birth weight infants.
- A set of 18 tear-out flash cards, perforated in the back of the book, offers a flexible, convenient way to study and memorize abbreviations, formulas, and conversions found in the book.
- Updated drug labels and equipment photos throughout the book reflect the latest drugs and technology used in the market.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Wonderful Book!! November 9, 2008
This book is a wonderful help for nursing students who are going through nursing school, for nurses who need a little review, or for anyone else in the healthcare field that needs to learn or review drug calculations. This book has certainly proven to be a wonderful addition to my textbooks!
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone in healthcare that deals with drugs and drug calculations!
great book October 30, 2008
this is a great book. need help in drug calculation this is the book to buy.
Everything is explained wonderfully... September 9, 2008
Wonderful book! I believe I could take this class as a self-pace class rather than having an actual teacher...the examples and break downs are so easy and understandable! One slight problem, a few answer in the back of the book are incorrect. We have check with the Math Department at the university I attend and they agree that the answers are incorrect. Thus far only a handful have been that way (10 max).
great September 8, 2008
I bought my books online, and it was well worth it. The book was in great shape and came in a timely manner.
BOOK September 1, 2007
GET A LITTLE RUSTY ON CALCULATIONS, OR JUST WANT TO REFRESH YOUR BRAIN. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK TO BRUSH UP ON ALL CALCULATIONS.
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