Math for Nurses: Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation [Paperback]

Mary Jo Boyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1987

This pocket guide provides a step-by-step approach to the mathematics and knowledge needed for the accurate calculation of drug doses. This edition contains expanded coverage of intravenous medication and insulin administration. Also included are end-of-chapter practice problems and new chapters covering paediatric and geriatric dose calculation. Other features new to this edition include a pre-assessment test; an expanded chapter on intravenous drug therapies; a new appendix identifying components of a drug label; and an inside-cover display of frequently-used formulas.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (February 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0397546122
• ISBN-13: 978-0397546121
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,909,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, but with mistakes, June 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation (Paperback)

As a new nursing student I have found this book very useful. There is a very comprehensive introduction which allows the student to relearn some of the math skills that may have been lost over the year. I also really like the fact that the book comes with a removable laminated card with conversions on it. I'm sure that this will come in quite handy when I begin my clinicals.
My only real complaint is that I have found a couple of mistakes in the fifth edition. I found at least two mistake in the answers provided for the chapter review on apothecaries' measurements. I would recommend that the publisher check their material a little better so as to prevent confusion for students.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Math For Nurses : Thumbs Up !, April 26, 2003

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Lorraine Smith (Lexington, South Carolina United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation (Paperback)

This is a great little book which is concise and user friendly. I would recommend to all nurses as it covers the basics of math and aswell as formulas for completing drug calculations relevent for the nursing profession.

4.0 out of 5 stars A good refresher., January 6, 2012

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rhenfield - See all my reviews

This review is from: Math for Nurses: A Pocket Guide to Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation (Paperback)

I bought this book before I began nursing school and have found it to be fairly helpful. My major criticism is how it seems to "blow through" the more complicated topics, showing you in painstaking detail how to solve an almost remedial problem then using advanced problems during the chapter reviews without showing the necessary steps. There was also no "pull out card" included. I wonder if that is a publisher's error, as the conversion charts promised on the pull out card are printed inside the front and back covers. The book also seems to arbitrarily round decimals up or down. For example, one answer of 14.5 was rounded down to just 14. An answer of 13.3 was rounded up to 14, without explanation.