TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kee,Joyce LeFever
AU  - Marshall,Sally M.
AU  - Woods,Katy
AU  - Forrester,Mary Catherine
TI  - Clinical calculations: with applications to general and specialty areas 
SN  - 0323390889
AV  - RS57 .K44 2016
U1  - 615.14 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - St. Louis, Missouri
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Pharmaceutical arithmetic
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Pharmaceutical Preparations
KW  - administration & dosage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: Basic math review -- Part II: Systems, conversion, and methods of drug calculation -- 1. Systems used for drug administration and temperature conversion -- 2. Conversion within the metric, apothecary, and household systems -- 3. Interpretation of drug labels, drug orders, bar codes, MAR and eMAR, automation of medication dispensing administration, and abbreviations -- 4. Prevention of medication errors -- 5. Alternative methods for drug administration -- 6. Methods of calculation -- 7. Methods of calculation for individualized drug dosing -- Part III: Calculations for oral, injectable and intravenous drugs -- 8. Oral and enteral preparations with clinical applications -- 9. Injectable preparations with clinical applications -- 10. Insulin administration -- 11. Intravenous preparations with clinical applications -- Part IV: calculations for specialty areas -- 12. Pediatrics -- 13. Critical care -- 14. Pediatric critical care -- 15. Labor and delivery -- 16. Community -- Part V: Post-test: oral preparations, injectables, intravenous, and pediatrics -- Appendix A: Guidelines for administration of medications -- Appendix B: Nomograms
N2  - "Clinical Calculations: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas, 8th Edition covers all four major drug calculation methods — ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis. It also includes practice problems not only for general care but also for specialty areas such as pediatrics and critical care. A new chapter covers insulin administration, and concise, illustrated information includes the latest medications, drug administration techniques, and devices. Written by a team of experts led by Joyce Kee, Clinical Calculations makes it easy to understand drug calculation and emphasizes patient safety above all else." --Publisher's website.
ER  -