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Kee, Joyce LeFever.

Clinical calculations : with applications to general and specialty areas / Joyce LeFever Kee, Sally M. Marshall. - 5th edition - St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2004. - xxii, 368 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Basic math review

Part II: Systems, conversion, and methods of drug calculation
Chapter 1: Systems used for drug administration
Chapter 2: Conversion within the metric, apothecary, and household systems
Chapter 3: Interpretation of drug labels, drug orders, bar codes, charting, "5 rights," and abbreviations
Chapter 4: Alternative methods for drug administration
Chapter 5: Methods of calculation
Chapter 6: Methods of calculation for individualized drug dosing

Part III: Calculations for oral, injectable, and intravenous drugs
Chapter 7: Oral and enteral preparations with clinical applications
Chapter 8: Injectable preparations with clinical applications
Chapter 9: Intravenous preparations with clinical applications

Part IV: Calculations for specialty areas
Chapter 10: Pediatrics
Chapter 11: Critical care
Chapter 12: Pediatric clinical care
Chapter 13: Labor and delivery
Chapter 14: Community

Part V: Post-test: oral preparations, injectables, intravenous, and pediatrics.

ISBN: 9781416031772 1416031774

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pharmaceutical arithmetic.
Nursing--Mathematics.

Dewey Class. No.: QV 18.2 K26c 2004