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The Nurse, The Math, The Meds: Drug Calculations Using Dimensional Analysis | 
 enlarge | Author: Joyce L. Mulholland
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
List Price: $52.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 78541
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 640
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0323030319
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.1401513076
EAN: 9780323030311
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
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Product Description
This text emphasizes the simplicity of the dimensional analysis method to help even those students with math anxiety minimize or eliminate medication calculation errors. It begins with a comprehensive review of general math skills and an explanation of basic dimensional analysis methodology. The book focuses on the analysis and setup of practice problems, formulation of a reasonable answer, and evaluation of the answer. This one-of-a-kind text is designed for nursing students at all levels, including graduate nurses and practicing nurses who want a refresher. It is an appropriate text selection for agency in-service programs as well as for physician assistant medication math courses.
- A companion CD-ROM packaged with the text offers additional practice problems.
- A self-assessment test precedes the comprehensive math review in Chapter 1, promoting a strong math foundation.
- Chapter 2 introduces the dimensional analysis method and includes several basic practice problems, facilitating consistent application of the method throughout the text.
- The analysis and setup of practice problems increases comprehension, reduces errors, and complements use of the dimensional analysis method.
- To help reduce medication errors, the text follows JCAHO and ISMP recommendations regarding avoidance of ambiguous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols.
- Each chapter begins with a quick overview of chapter contents to orient students as they prepare to read and study the material.
- The text's full-color design includes a special margin section in which students can work out practice problems on the spot.
- Rapid Practice exercises follow each main concept, allowing students to review even when their study time is limited or frequently interrupted.
- Test Tips enhance comprehension and improve students' test-taking skills and comfort level.
- Selected Mnemonics are supplied to facilitate memorization and conserve learning time.
- Red Arrow Alerts call attention to critical math concepts and patient-safety theory as well as to key nursing practice issues.
- FAQs and Answers are derived from students' actual classroom questions. They are particularly helpful to students who are studying outside of a traditional classroom environment.
- Ask Yourself questions help students comprehend and synthesize content.
- Communication boxes, which present sample nurse-patient and nurse-prescriber dialogues, illustrate clinical applications of medication administration.
- Cultural boxes describe selected math-notation and medication-related cultural practices.
Clinical Relevance boxes show how abstract concepts, such as legal issues, apply to everyday clinical practice.- Website addresses and other useful references are provided where applicable.
- Two chapter finals are included at the end of each chapter, one multiple-choice format and one traditional format, with answers provided in the back of the book.
- Two comprehensive finals, one using an NCLEX examination-style multiple-choice format and one following a traditional format, test the major concepts covered in the text and offer an opportunity for additional practice.
- An answer key in the back of the book contains step-by-step solutions to the Rapid Practice exercises, chapter finals, and comprehensive text finals, allowing the student to pinpoint specific areas for further review.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent text May 14, 2008
D. Moore
This book illustrates the relationship of the math to clinical practice better than any other text I saw. We don't attend clinical until after the math for medications is completed. The vocabulary definitions also are very helpful.
A+ August 6, 2008
Stan Rocklin (Mesa, AZ USA)
I give this text an A +. so far. Has a variety of great questions, problems and examples to help the whole process and logic sink in, talks to me in an easy-to-understand way. I saw some other texts that
don't compare. S. Rocklin
Well organized and helpful March 2, 2007
Bob S.
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this text to be well organized. The instruction is straightforward and easy to follow. The short quizzes & FAQ's were particularly useful.
 Not so great February 14, 2008
J. Chadwick
I am only on the first chapter of this book and have already found MANY mistakes in the answer key for the "rapid practice" problems. I don't like that the pages are all perforated and can be torn out as if it were a workbook, not a text book. For this reason, among others, it was really overpriced. Also, very displeased with the online access tools. I took the time out of my studies to register and come to find out I don't get access to anything helpful. I believe that the online access registration was just a ploy to get my address and other personal information. Not happy with this book at all so far.
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