Calculation Skills for Nurses (eBook)

Claire Boyd (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118448953 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Inhalt

CALCULATION SKILLS FOR NURSES 3
Contents 7
Preface 9
Introduction 11
Acknowledgements 15
Latin Abbreviations 17
The 24-Hour Clock 19
Part 1 DIAGNOSIS 21
Chapter 1 CALCULATIONS REVISION 23
FEELING A BIT RUSTY? 24
DECIMAL 25
Rounding Decimal Numbers 25
METRIC MEASURES 27
Conversion from One Unit to Another 28
Converting Larger Units to the Next Smaller Unit 28
Converting Smaller Units to the Next Larger Unit 28
PERCENTAGES 30
Calculating the Percentage of a Number 31
Finding One Amount as a Percentage of Another 31
Strength of a Solution 33
FRACTIONS 34
Simplifying Fractions 34
Changing Fractions into Decimals 35
Simple Conversions from Fractions, Decimals and Percentages 36
RATIOS 37
AVERAGES 39
Chapter 2 CALCULATIONS SELF-ASSESSMENT 43
Part 2 UNDERSTANDING NURSING CALCULATIONS 47
Chapter 3 METRIC UNITS AND CONVERSIONS 49
Chapter 4 TABLETS AND CAPSULES 53
Chapter 5 LIQUIDS AND INJECTABLES 59
CALCULATORS 64
Chapter 6 SYRINGES AND MENISCUS 67
THE SYRINGE 69
Types of Syringe 69
Needles Come in Gauge Sizes 73
INJECTIONS 73
Needles for Injection 74
Meniscus 74
Chapter 7 DISPLACEMENT VALUES 77
Let’s Explain this Another Way 79
Chapter 8 DOSAGES ACCORDING TO BODY WEIGHT 83
Chapter 9 DRIP RATES 87
Chapter 10 DRIP-RATE DURATION 93
Chapter 11 SYRINGE DRIVERS AND PUMPS 97
SYRINGE DRIVERS 102
Millimetres Per Hour 102
Chapter 12 PAEDIATRIC NURSING 105
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NURSING CALCULATIONS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS? 106
WORKING OUT DRUG DOSAGES 106
WORKING OUT WEIGHT CONVERSIONS 107
WORKING OUT FLUID BALANCE CALCULATIONS 108
WORKING OUT FLUID DRUG CALCULATIONS 110
DRUG DOSAGES ACCORDING TO BODY WEIGHT 110
DOSAGES ACCORDING TO SURFACE AREA 111
Part 3 PUTTING IT ALL INTO PRACTICE 117
Chapter 13 FLUID CHARTS 119
Chapter 14 MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL (MUST) ASSESSMENT 125
Chapter 15 EARLY WARNING SCORE (EWS) ASSESSMENT 129
Chapter 16 WATERLOW ASSESSMENT 135
Chapter 17 PRESCRIPTION CHARTS 139
Chapter 18 LOOKING AT BUDGETS 145
Chapter 19 INTERPRETING DATA 149
Chapter 20 EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 155
Chapter 21 BODY MASS INDEX 159
BMI GUIDELINES 160
Part 4 TESTING YOUR KNOWLEDGE 163
Chapter 22 KNOWLEDGE TESTS 165
KNOWLEDGE TEST 1 166
KNOWLEDGE TEST 2 167
KNOWLEDGE TEST 3 169
KNOWLEDGE TEST 4 170
Answers to Activity Questions 173
Part 5 APPENDICES 183
Appendix 1 FLUID CHART 185
Appendix 2 MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL 189
Appendix 3 BRISTOL OBSERVATION CHART 197
Appendix 4 WATERLOW PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION/TREATMENT POLICY 199
Appendix 5 CONVERSION TABLES 201
Bibliography 203
Index 205
Nursing Calculation Formulas 209

Rezensionen

"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)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Student Survival Skills
• Reihe/Serie: Student Survival Skills
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• Schlagworte: Einführungen in die Krankenpflege • Einführungen in die Krankenpflege • Introductions to Nursing • Krankenpflege • nursing • Reference for nursing students, calculate drug dosages, NMC standards, nursing Essential Skills Clusters, guide for nursing clinical placements, advice for nursing students
• ISBN-13: 9781118448953 / 9781118448953