Calculation of drug dosages : a work text /

Ogden, Sheila J., 1949-

Calculation of drug dosages : a work text / Sheila J. Ogden, MSN, RN, President and CEO, SJOgden Consulting, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, Linda K. Fluharty, MSN, RN, Professor, School of Nurisng, Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, Indiana. - Eleventh edition. - xviii, 618 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Includes index.

Review of mathematics -- Review of mathematics pretest -- Fractions -- Decimals -- Percents -- Ratios -- Proportions -- Review of mathematics posttest -- Units and measurements for the calculation of drug dosages -- Metric and household measurements -- Apothecary and household measurements -- Equivalents between apothecary and metric measurements -- Preparation for calculation of drug dosages -- Safety in medication administration -- Interpretation of the physician's orders -- How to read drug labels -- Dimensional analysis and the calculation of drug dosages -- Calculation of drug dosages -- Oral dosages -- Parenteral dosages -- Reconstitution and dosages measured in units -- Intravenous flow rates -- Critical care intravenous flow rates -- Pediatric dosages -- Obstetric dosages -- Drug administration considerations -- Automated medication dispensing systems -- Special considerations for the administration of medications to the elderly -- Home care considerations in the administration of medications.

Offers a drug calculation work text designed to provide a systemic review of mathematics and a simplified method of calculating drug dosages. Ogden and Fluharty include information on the dimensional analysis, ratio and proportion, and formula methods of drug calculation, as well as numerous practice problems. --From publisher description.

9780323551281 0323551289


Pharmaceutical arithmetic--Programmed instruction.
Drugs--Dosage--Programmed instruction.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--administration & dosage--Nurses' Instruction.
Mathematics--Nurses' Instruction.
Drugs--Dosage.
Pharmaceutical arithmetic.


Programmed instructional materials.

RS57 / .R33 2020

615.1/401513

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