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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Dimensional Analysis Tracy Horntvedt, 2023-02-01 Make dosage calculations easier to master with dimensional analysis. Dosage calculations can be intimidating, but they don’t need to be. Dimensional analysis is an easy, systematic approach that shows you how to master simple to complex calculations with consistency and accuracy and reduce medication errors to ensure that drugs are administered safely and documented correctly. Dimensional analysis, which can be used on virtually every dosage calculation problem, eliminates the need to use other methods or perform lengthy, multi-step calculations. It’s a method of problem-solving that organizes data in a manner that is easy to understand and apply. |
| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Dimensional Analysis for Meds Anna M. Curren, 2019-03-01 Dimensional Analysis for Meds: Refocusing on Essential Metric Calculations, Fifth Edition is a leading dosage calculation text for nursing students. |
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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Clinical Nursing Calculations Susan Sienkiewicz, Sandra Megerdichian, 2019-09-27 Clinical Nursing Calculations is an essential text for teaching dosage calculation to undergraduate nursing students. |
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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Henke's Med-Math Susan Buchholz, Grace Henke, 2008-09-01 Now in its Sixth Edition, this best-selling text features a highly visual, hands-on approach to learning dosage calculations and principles of drug administration. It presents step-by-step approaches to solving problems and includes dosage problems that simulate actual clinical experience. Each chapter includes numerous examples, self-tests, and proficiency tests. This edition presents all four methods of calculation side by side: ratio, proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis. New material on enteral feedings, heparin infusions, and insulin infusions is included. Drug labels are current, and problems use JCAHO-approved abbreviations. A handy quick-reference plastic pull-out card shows conversions and formulas. |
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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Math Calculations for Pharmacy Technicians - E-Book Robert M. Fulcher, Eugenia M. Fulcher, 2012-03-16 Written for pharmacy technicians, and addressing the competencies developed by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Math Calculations for Pharmacy Technicians, 2nd Edition helps you learn to calculate drug dosages safely and accurately. A practical worktext format covers everything from basic math skills to reading and interpreting labels and physicians' orders, introducing key calculation and conversion concepts and then providing hundreds of problems so you can practice and master the material. Other vital topics include conversions between the various measurement systems, reconstituting liquid medications, and calculating medications based on a patient's age or body weight. Written by experienced pharmacist Robert Fulcher and educator Eugenia Fulcher, Math Calculations for Pharmacy Technicians helps you learn calculation skills and develop the competencies needed by pharmacy technicians. Learning objectives and definitions of key words begin each chapter. Pretests in each chapter allow readers to assess their current knowledge of specific topics. Step-by-step examples make it easy to learn and remember how to do equations and use formulas. Hundreds of practice problems provide practice with calculations, conversions, and measurements. Actual drug labels accompany examples and problems, for real-world experience with the information you will see in pharmacy practice. Business Math for Pharmacy Technicians chapter introduces the calculations needed in retail pharmacy settings. Body system icons appear next to medication names to help you associate different drugs with their respective disorders and body systems. Points to Remember boxes make it easy to learn and remember key information. Review of Rules sections in each chapter summarize the rules and methods for performing equations. Chapter reviews provide a quick summary of the key concepts in each chapter. Posttests in each chapter allow you to assess how well you have learned the material. A comprehensive posttest includes 50 questions that assess your knowledge of all major topics covered in the book. Helpful study tools also include an answer key for odd-numbered problems and a comprehensive glossary. Updated content meets ASHP requirements and features new topics such as powder volume and compounding problems, formulas for reducing and enlarging medications, and opportunities to write out prescription label directions. Tech Note boxes offer helpful advice on real-life situations you may encounter in the pharmacy. Tech Alert boxes warn against common pharmacy and medication errors that could impact patients' safety. Additional prescription and practice exercises give you valuable experience with translating physician directions into patient instructions. |
| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Study Guide for Pharmacology Linda E. McCuistion, Kathleen Vuljoin DiMaggio, Mary B. Winton, Jennifer J. Yeager, 2020-01-03 Corresponding to the chapters in McCuistion's Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach, 10th Edition, this hands-on study guide offers engaging activities to help you review and remember essential nursing pharmacology. Exercises include study questions, case studies, and NCLEX® Examination–style review questions. This new edition also features alternate item format questions including multiple response, fill-in-the-blank calculations, and ordered response questions. It's an essential tool in helping you apply your knowledge of pharmacology to clinical practice, develop pharmacology-related clinical reasoning skills, and master safe drug administration. - NCLEX® review questions include an alternate item format NCLEX®-style question in each chapter along with a number of application-level questions throughout the workbook. - Drug calculations chapter follows the outline of the main-text chapter to help you test your knowledge and skill in drug dosage calculation. - Sample drug labels have been updated to reflect the latest drug labels from the main 10th edition text. - Detailed case studies enhance your understanding of nursing responsibilities in therapeutic pharmacology. - Answers for all exercises are provided at the back of the book to facilitate self-study. Rationales are also included for all application-level questions and case study questions. - Focus on safety includes a special icon that calls attention to questions related to safe patient care. - NEW! Updated content incorporates updated drug labels, removal of discontinued drugs, updated case studies, and updated study questions to reflect all the updates that have been made to the 10th edition of the main textbook. |
| dimensional analysis metric conversions: The Nurse, The Math, The Meds - E-Book Joyce L. Mulholland, Susan Turner, 2014-10-01 Use the simplicity of the dimensional analysis method to minimize drug calculation errors! The Nurse, The Math, The Meds, 3rd Edition helps you overcome any math anxiety you may have by clearly explaining how to use the dimensional analysis method. It shows how to analyze practice problems, find the reasonable answer, and then evaluate it. But first, it lets you refresh your math skills with a review of essential math. Written by noted nursing educator Joyce Mulholland, this book offers over 1,400 questions for plenty of practice in mastering math concepts and learning dosage calculations. |
| dimensional analysis metric conversions: How to Solve Word Problems in Chemistry David E. Goldberg, 2001-07-17 In addition to having to master a vast number of difficult concepts and lab procedures, high school chemistry students must also learn, with little or no coaching from their teachers, how to solve tough word problems. Picking up where standard chemistry texts leave off, How to Solve Word Problems in Chemistry takes the fear and frustration out of chemistry word problems by providing students with easy-to-follow procedures for solving problems in everything from radioactive half-life to oxidation-reduction reactions. |
| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Foundations of College Chemistry, Alternate Morris Hein, Susan Arena, 2010-01-26 Learning the fundamentals of chemistry can be a difficult task to undertake for health professionals. For over 35 years, this book has helped them master the chemistry skills they need to succeed. It provides them with clear and logical explanations of chemical concepts and problem solving. They’ll learn how to apply concepts with the help of worked out examples. In addition, Chemistry in Action features and conceptual questions checks brings together the understanding of chemistry and relates chemistry to things health professionals experience on a regular basis. |
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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Basic Math Concepts Joanne K. Price, 2018-05-03 FROM THE PREFACE In the years since the first edition, I have continued to consider ways in which the texts could be improved. In this regard, I researched several topics including how people learn (learning styles, etc.), how the brain functions in storing and retrieving information, and the fundamentals of memory systems. Many of the changes incorporated in this second edition are a result of this research. The changes were field-tested during a three-year period in which I taught a water and wastewater mathematics course for Palomar Community College, San Marcos, California. All the fundamental math concepts and skills needed for daily water/wastewater treatment plant operations. This first volume, Basic Math Concepts for Water and Wastewater Plant Operators, provides a thorough review of the necessary mathematical concepts and skills encountered in the daily operations of a water and wastewater treatment plant. Each chapter begins with a skills check to allow the student to determine whether or not a review of the topic is needed. Practice problems illustrate the concepts presented in each section. |
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| dimensional analysis metric conversions: Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry Morris Hein, Scott Pattison, Susan Arena, Leo R. Best, 2014-01-15 The most comprehensive book available on the subject, Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry, 11th Edition continues its tradition of fostering the development of problem-solving skills, featuring numerous examples and coverage of current applications. Skillfully anticipating areas of difficulty and pacing the material accordingly, this readable work provides clear and logical explanations of chemical concepts as well as the right mix of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. An emphasis on real-world topics lets readers clearly see how the chemistry will apply to their career. |
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