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A guide for students in math classes for academic upgrading

Essential Calculation Skills for Nurses and Midwives

This user-friendly book is: Suitable for a wide variety of healthcare practitioners, including all nurses and midwives Full of authentic worked examples Features core clinical charts, prescription models, labels and diagrams Types of calculation covered include: Decimals Fractions Percentages and ratios Ratios and proportion The book shows you how to calculate doses correctly for tablets, capsules, fluids and injections.

How to Master Nursing Calculations

For the maths-phobic, this 2nd edition of the best-selling How to Master Nursing Calculations, is ideal practice for learning key numeracy skills. The perfect companion for your training and in the first few crucial years of your career, it builds your competency through practice, revision and every day examples. Contents includes a review of the basics, clear illustrations of instrument scales, medical administration records and pharmaceutical labels as well as a detailed guide to reading drug dosage charts. Including a brand new list of important abbreviations and a section on how to make drug calculations without equations - requiring little mathematical knowledge - How to Master Nursing Calculations, 2nd edition, will help you master complex dosages and turn you into a maths whiz.

Top Resources for PN math:

Welcome to the research guide page for Nursing Math. 

The best resources for all levels of mathematics are listed in the Top Mathematics Resources box to the right.

Any additional resources which are good for all Nursing Math topics are listed in this box.

Basic Skills:

All nursing calculations assume familiarity with the following math skills: fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, measurement, and conversion. For review of these concepts, please refer to the following:

 

Medical Calculations: