Nursing Resources

Providing nursing students with words of wisdom and advice from real-life student nurses, Calculation Skills for Nurses enables you to calculate drug dosages with ease, boosting your confidence and competence in this core area of nursing practice. The book takes away the fear of calculations, making it approachable, easy and fun, and ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters. It is filled with examples and questions based on real life nursing and healthcare situations and includes key information displayed on the inside back cover for quick look-up on clinical placements.

Discover the complete handbook for managing drug dosages and learn how to master essential measurement formulas. With a practical and straightforward approach to dosage calculations, this simple guide provides nurse practitioners and students with an easy guide to managing drug dosages, avoiding medical errors, and effortlessly converting units for quick and effective patient care. Featuring a complete breakdown of common drugs and dosage amounts, how to easily convert between different units and measurements, how to manage ratios and percentages, and much more, Dosage Calculations for Nursing Students aims to be a practical handbook and reference guide that helps you familiarize yourself with the various drugs you'll encounter during your career.

Essential information on 1000 of the most commonly prescribed medications and 60 drugs often used in the pre-hospital setting. Drug-specific EMS pearls, including signs and symptoms of overdose and specific overdose management. Sections on street drugs and medicinal herbs. Quick field reference tables, including cardiac algorithms, weight conversion, and injury severity score. An amazing amount of content packed into a pocket-sized reference: EMS Field Medications, Commonly Prescribed Medications: Classificaton, Commonly Prescribed Medications: Generic and Selected Data, Commonly Used Medicinal Herbs, Commonly Used Street Drugs, Reference Tables, Emergency Cardiac Care Medications

This handy book is an essential guide for all nursing students, enabling you to understand the theory and practice of drug administration and facilitate your confidence and competence. This essential guide explores the theory and practice of drug administration briefly and coherently, with 'test your knowledge' exercises and questions throughout to assess your learning. It also includes 'words of wisdom'- tips from real life students from their own experiences. Ideal for carrying to clinical placements, Medicine Management Skills for Nurses is an essential guide to drugs and medicine administration.

Struggling with medication math in nursing or paramedic school? Worried you've calculated the wrong medication dose for your patient? This book is for you.Med Math Simplified represents the hard lessons learned by the author, a self-professed math idiot, while becoming a paramedic and later a nurse. It uses the concepts of dimensional analysis with a good old common sense approach to learning the math and formulas needed to safely and correctly arrive at drug doses for your patients.