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More About This Title Calculation Skills for Nurses
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Providing nursing students with words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Calculation Skills for Nurses enables you to calculate drug dosages with ease, boosting your confidence and competence in this core area of nursing practice. The book takes away the fear of calculations, making it approachable, easy and fun, and ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters. It is filled with examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations and includes key information displayed on the inside back cover for quick look-up on clinical placements.
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Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes and contributes in ensuring effective clinical governance. She organises the transition training program for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas.
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PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
LATIN ABBREVIATIONS xv
THE 24-HOUR CLOCK xvii
Part 1: Diagnosis 1
1 CALCULATIONS REVISION 3
2 CALCULATIONS SELF-ASSESSMENT 23
Part 2: Understanding Nursing Calculations 27
3 METRIC UNITS AND CONVERSIONS 29
4 TABLETS AND CAPSULES 33
5 LIQUIDS AND INJECTABLES 39
6 SYRINGES AND MENISCUS 47
7 DISPLACEMENT VALUES 57
8 DOSAGES ACCORDING TO BODY WEIGHT 63
9 DRIP RATES 67
10 DRIP-RATE DURATION 73
11 SYRINGE DRIVERS AND PUMPS 77
12 PAEDIATRIC NURSING 85
Part 3: Putting It All Into Practice 97
13 FLUID CHARTS 99
14 MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL (MUST) ASSESSMENT 105
15 EARLY WARNING SCORE (EWS) ASSESSMENT 109
16 WATERLOW ASSESSMENT 115
17 PRESCRIPTION CHARTS 119
18 LOOKING AT BUDGETS 125
19 INTERPRETING DATA 129
20 EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 135
21 BODY MASS INDEX 139
Part 4: Testing Your Knowledge 143
22 KNOWLEDGE TESTS 145
ANSWERS TO ACTIVITY QUESTIONS 153
Part 5: Appendices 163
APPENDIX 1: FLUID CHART 165
APPENDIX 2: MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL 169
APPENDIX 3: BRISTOL OBSERVATION CHART 177
APPENDIX 4: WATERLOW PRESSURE ULCER
PREVENTION/TREATMENT POLICY 179
APPENDIX 5: CONVERSION TABLES 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY 183
INDEX 185
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“Everyone who has anything to do with drug calculations should have this book, even the doctors! Anyone who enjoys maths would also love this book, especially if you are likely to want to teach any of it.” (Nursing Times, 30 July 2014)
“This book, by a registered nurse and practice development trainer, is concise and easy to follow.” (Nursing Older People, 1 November 2013)
