Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare: Australian Edition (Custom Edition), 1st edition

• Chapter 1 Basic Arithmetic Skills
• The things you don't want to ask about but need to know.
• Chapter 2 Decimals and Other Fractions
• How to deal with the bits and pieces.
• Chapter 3 SI Units
• How's your French? You only need one phrase 'Système International d'Unités'.
• Chapter 4 Drug calculations
• Pills, potions and pinpricks.
• Chapter 5 Drug concentrations
• The jokers in the pack.
• Chapter 6 Percent, percentage and ratios
• Hundreds and thousands and much more.
• Chapter 7 Intravenous fluid and drug administration
• Drips, drops and devices.
• Chapter 8 Common Clinical Measurements
• Charting, charting and more charting.
• Chapter 9 Physiological Measurements
• Blood, but no sweat and tears.
• Chapter 10 Statistics and reading research articles
• No ostriches here please.
• Appendices
• I Roman numerals and their Arabic equivalent
• II Multiples and divisions of SI units
• III Important elements in the body. Isotopes and Avogadro's constant.
• IV Physiological reference values for adults
• V Abbreviations used in prescribing
• VI & VII Peak flow measurements
• VIII Body Mass Index and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
• IX Nomogram for calculating body surface area
• X Weight conversion chart
• XI Summary of methods for drug calculations

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