Customer Reviews

Calculate with Confidence, Fourth Edition

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I used this book to CLEP out of a Med Dosing class, and I missed 6 out of 115 questions!! This book is the best and one to add to any Nursing major's collections of books to keep on hand.

This was a nice review of math skills needed in the nursing field. There were good visual aids in the book and steps were very systematic.

We had to complete this entire book before beginning our LPN nursing coursework. It is a great book!

It explains concepts thoroughly and gives plenty of examples so you can go step-by-step to calculate new problems. The answers are in the back so you can check your work before you move on to a new concept.

I've used is several times as a resource throughout my LPN year. Highly recommended.

I am using this book for my current Nursing program, and thus far has been very helpful. It breaks everything down, and gives several examples and opportunities for practice. It also builds on everything you've already learned so that you can see how to apply it. I found the pre-test and post-test to be great so that you can gain an understanding of what your math level is before and after reviewing the 1st 8 chapters. If you are already good at basic math, you can skip the first 8 chapters because they are just a review. Overall, a great book, and not hard to understand.

This book is a required text in my nursing program and it has been wonderful. I really needed practice brushing up on math and this book leads you from math basics all the way through to various methods of medication and IV calculation. One unique feature of this text: 3 different methods for calculating medications are introduced (ratio & proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis.) You determine which method you prefer for completing medication problems. The medication examples in the book are then worked through step-by-step based on all 3 methods. I simply study my preferred method of solving problems (ratio & proportion) and disregard the other 2 methods. Each chapter includes pre and post tests and there is a CD-ROM that contains over 500 practice problems. I find the book easy to understand, even if you are self-teaching. There are lots of practice problems and answers. This book is well worth the money!

When lives are in your hands, you want to be sure that your calculations are perfect everytime. This is the book that will give you the confidence to know that you are calculating all medications accurately everytime. A must have for all those in the medical field.

This book is really great. I got accepted in the nursing program but I always had a fear of math I didn't think I could do it. But this book carrys you step by step even the math dummy can understand dosage calculation. Believe me you won't be disappointed.

I can't stress enough how many nursing students before me stressed the importance of getting this book and starting it before classes. It was a book required by my school, however, I may have purchased it anyways on my own. It goes over all the math essential to nursing. I like the way the chapters are split up and it looks like it has enough examples and practice problems to allow you to learn the material properly. There is also a website that correlates with the book that has practice tests - so all around you can be prepared with this book.

2 months after initial review.. I wanted to come back and add more to this review because I have been using this book for the last few months for my Pharmacology Nursing class at school. I LOVE this book! It is full of important, invaluable information pertaining to Nursing. It has lots of questions for practice so that you know that you know the calculations - the answers are in the back of the book and in many cases, it explains why the answer is what it is. If your school does not require this book, buy it anyways! It is easy to learn and thoroughly explains concepts. The book presents several different methods / formulas for working calculations, so it makes it easy to find one that works for you. Awesome book!! One that I will refer back to often over the next few years!

This is a great math book for anyone in Nursing! I recently got a new job which required a review and this book made all the difference. It has everything you need in detail, including pictures! Great teaching book!

I think this edition is great in the sense of how drug calculations are to be calculated, but there are math MISTAKES throughout this book. At least in mine. It's like they pulled the #'s out of thin air. One good thing about the practice questions & answers was they do show their work in the back so you can figure out where they went wrong. The calculations were correct, but they didn't copy the #'s down correctly. Which is another very IMPORTANT part of drug math. There were math problems even on the cd that were not correct. I wanted this book to be great in every sense but It was disappointing when I went to check my work.