ABSTRACT

Do you find maths challenging?

Do you struggle with drug calculations or clinical applications of numeracy?

If you need to brush up your maths skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is the perfect textbook to help you through your nursing programme. The text starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration, common clinical measurements and how to understand statistics in research articles. By illustrating how maths is relevant to clinical practice, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is a great tool to help you increase your confidence and excel in your studies and career.

Key features:

  • Step-by-step examples make understanding concepts easy
  • Look Out sections highlight common mistakes
  • Time to Try and What Did You Learn? questions help you apply what you have learned
  • Key Point boxes provide helpful hints for good problem-solving technique
  • Web links direct you to further reading and examples.

chapter |31 pages

Basic arithmetic skills

The things you don't want to ask about but need to know

chapter |29 pages

Decimals and other fractions

How to deal with the bits and pieces

chapter |15 pages

SI units

How's your French? You only need one phrase: 'Système International d'Unités'

chapter |23 pages

Drug calculations

Pills, potions and pinpricks

chapter |14 pages

Drug concentrations

The jokers in the pack

chapter |19 pages

Per cent, percentage and ratios

Hundreds and thousands and much more

chapter |21 pages

Intravenous fluid and drug administration

Drips, drops and devices

chapter |31 pages

Common clinical measurements

Charting, charting and more charting

chapter |15 pages

Physiological measurements

Blood, but no sweat and tears

chapter |18 pages

Statistics and reading research articles

No ostriches here, please