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ОглавлениеThere are various ways to use this book:
If you are a student nurse or have returned to nursing after a career break and want a comprehensive understanding of drug and clinical calculations used in nursing, then read the book cover to cover.
If you are confident in your basic numeracy skills but want to learn how to apply these to the clinical setting, concentrate on Chapters 3 to 6. These will equip you with information about the SI system used in healthcare, how to calculate drug doses and the use of numbers and calculations in other areas of clinical practice like nutrition and fluid balance. Chapter 6 contains several tests so you can check your knowledge and understanding.
If you are an experienced nurse and have changed career directions and are unsure whether your current knowledge of drug and clinical calculations is up to scratch, then focus your study on Chapters 3, 4 and 6. This will allow you to revise the SI system and practise calculating drug doses and other clinical calculations.
If you are confident in your basic numeracy skills but want to gain more practice of drug calculations then concentrate your efforts on Chapters 3, 4 and 6. These focus mainly on drugs, the units of measurement and calculating correct doses.
If you are revising for a drug calculation exam, focus on Chapters 3, 4 and 6. These chapters explain the SI system and the fundamentals of calculating drug doses as well as providing many clinically related practice calculations.
