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Ogden, Sheila J., 1949- author.

Calculation of drug dosages : a work text / Sheila J. Ogden, MSN, RN, President and CEO, SJOgden Consulting, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana ; [and] Linda K. Fluharty, MSN, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Twelfth edition.

St Louis : Elsevier, [2022]

xx, 629 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Offers a drug calculation work text designed to provide a systemic review of mathematics and a simplified method of calculating drug dosages. Ogden and Fluharty include information on the dimensional analysis, ratio and proportion, and formula methods of drug calculation, as well as numerous practice problems. --From publisher description.

Pharmaceutical arithmetic -- Programmed instruction.

Drugs -- Dosage -- Programmed instruction.

Includes index.

Review of mathematics: Review of mathematics pretest -- Fractions -- Decimals -- Percents -- Ratios -- Proportions -- Review of mathematics posttest. -- Units and measurements for the calculation of drug dosages: Metric and household measurements -- Calculations used in patient assessments. -- Preparation for calculation of drug dosages: Chapter 8. Safety in medication administration -- Interpretation of the licensed prescriber's orders -- Reading medication labels. -- Calculation of drug dosages: Oral dosages -- Parenteral dosages -- Dosages measured in units -- Reconstitution of medications -- Intravenous flow rates -- Intravenous flow rates for dosages measured in units -- Critical care intravenous flow rates -- Pediatric dosages -- Obstetric dosages. -- Apothecary system of measure. --

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