This pocket sized quick-reference guide to support students in the calculation of drug dosages is not rivaled by anything else on the market. As a support text, Reid-Searl’s Student’s Maths & Medications Survival Guide assists students in the safe administration of medications in clinical settings. 

INTRODUCTION

• Maths revisited
• Mathematical symbols
• Order of operations
• Number fact grids
• Time
• Hindu Arabic and Roman numerals
• Medication safety
• Factor, decimal and percentage conversions
• Numbered figures/tables
• The base system
• The decimal point
• Measuring a fluid base chart
• Revisiting basic algorithms
• Working with fractions
• Percentages
• Rounding
• The Metric System

SOME HANDY TABLES INVOLVING MEASUREMENT

• Intravenous fluid requirements
• Rule of nines

FORMULAS USED IN NURSING

• Calculating dosage using a formula

APPLYING DRUG CALCULATIONS USING DOSAGES

• Calculating oral medications
• Calculating parenteral medications

SAFE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

• Categories of drugs - schedules
• What must be on a medication chart
• What is in a medication order
• What makes a medication order valid
• What is on a medication label
• Steps the Registered Nurse must take for telephone orders of prescription drugs
• Frequency and times of medication administration
• Commonly used and understood abbreviations
• Other abbreviations
• Intravenous fluids - what is on a fluid order
• Abbreviations for intravenous fluids
• Intravenous fluids - drip rates