Dosage Calculations

Dosage Calculations: An Incredibly Easy! Workout features over 250 enjoyable practice exercises to help readers master dosage calculations with ease. A perfect companion to Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!, this workbook uses the light-hearted Incredibly Easy! writing style that makes learning and reviewing complex information less threatening and more fun.

Chapters test the reader's knowledge of essential calculation information including math basics, measurement systems, recording drug administration, oral, topical, and rectal drugs, parenteral drugs, I.V. infusions, and special calculations. Readers maneuver through practice exercises that assess learning, encourage comprehension and retention, and provide a little laughter. Nurse Joy and other host characters offer coaching and encouragement.

The book contains no figures.

Dosage Calculations: An Incredibly Easy! Workout features over 250 enjoyable practice exercises to help readers master dosage calculations with ease. A perfect companion to Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy!, this workbook uses the light-hearted Incredibly Easy! writing style that makes learning and reviewing complex information less threatening and more fun.

Chapters test the reader's knowledge of essential calculation information including math basics, measurement systems, recording drug administration, oral, topical, and rectal drugs, parenteral drugs, I.V. infusions, and special calculations. Readers maneuver through practice exercises that assess learning, encourage comprehension and retention, and provide a little laughter. Nurse Joy and other host characters offer coaching and encouragement.

Diane Aschenbrenner

This is a book of multiple choice practice problems in dosage calculation. The purpose is to provide practice questions for the NCLEX licensing exam. The intended audience is nursing students preparing to take the NCLEX licensing exam. The book could also serve as a test bank for nursing faculty who teach this content. The questions test understanding of different measurement systems; converting between measurement systems; oral, parenteral, pediatric, and intravenous doses; and more complex equations where rate and concentration of the drag are used to determine the dose. A comprehensive exam is also included. Answers to all of the questions are provided, with computation using both the ratio and proportion and dimensional analysis methods shown. Unlike texts for dosage calculation, this book is not a teaching tool to show students how to solve dosage calculation problems or to explain how the equations were set up. Neither are any pictures of drug labels or other illustrations relevant to dosage calculation included. This book should be useful for students who have a basic understanding of dosage calculation but require more practice to become proficient in this area. The grouping of calculation problems may be especially helpful to students who are weak in only one or two areas of dosage calculation.

Oliver, Gina, RN, PhD (c) (Deaconess College of Nursing, St. Louis); Knauff, Carol, RN, MSN, CCRN (Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, PA)