Table of Contents

Nursing Calculations in Context

Part I

Module 1 - Basic skills

* Introductory assessment

* Basic mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

* Fractions

* The metric system

* Practice exercises, scenarios and answers

Module 2 - Medications

* Oral medications: Tablets and mixtures

* Intravenous fluid management and naso-gastric feeding

* Parenteral medications

* Practice exercises, scenarios and answers

Part II

Module 3 - Injections

* Intravenous bolus dosages, as a 'push', via a volumetric pump.

* Exercises and scenarios include calculating doses for the following patient conditions:

Appendicectomy, cholecystectomy, pylonephritis, diabetes and pregnancy, myocardial infarction, alcoholism, infected leg ulcer, CVA, hypertension, abdominal pain, tonsillectomy, epilepsy, ovarian cyst, severe diarrhoea, dehydration, haemorrhoidectomy.

Module 4 -

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About the Author

Valda Hext is a lecturer in the school of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of South Australia. Lidia Mayner is a registered nurse and lecturer in physiology at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University.