Dosage Calculations for Healthcare Professionals, 1st edition

For courses in medical dosage calculation.

The most complete medication administration and safety resource for Australian healthcare students.

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Dosage Calculations for Healthcare Professionals helps students develop dosage calculation skills so they can safely administer medication in a clinical environment. This accessible digital learning product combines easy-to-understand instructions and explanations with progressively more challenging examples and many practice problems. Meaningful digital learning features have been included to review foundational maths concepts and help students progress to mastery. As students go, they build the core maths skills needed to calculate drug doses accurately.

This first Australian edition offers a consistent focus on safety, accuracy and professionalism, making it a valuable part of a course for nursing, midwifery and other health professional programs in Australia. Safety in medication administration practices are presented based on the recommendations of the ACSQHC, and students will become familiar with medications and equipment they'll use in actual clinical settings with examples of real labels, syringes and records used throughout.