Book Details

Key Features

• More than 2,000 practice problems include a pre-test and a comprehensive post-test review.
• Three-part approach to evaluating basic math skills includes a pre-test, comprehensive unit, and review tests.
• Medication Administration chapter covers medication safety, a discussion of client rights, the basic six rights of medication administration, and routes of medication administration.
• Chapter review problems (with answer key) test all major topics presented in the chapter and help you assess your understanding of chapter content.
• Safety Alert boxes highlight issues that may lead to medication errors and empower you to identify actions that must be taken to avoid calculation errors.
• Tips for Clinical Practice boxes call attention to information critical to math calculation and patient safety and equip you with the tools needed to follow best practices in patient care.
• Rule boxes present important instructions essential to math calculations and familiarize you with information needed to accurately solve drug calculation problems.
• Clinical Reasoning Scenarios discuss safety issues related to medication administration.
• Points to Remember feature provides bulleted key points from the chapter.

New Features

• NEW! Intravitreal route is now included in the discussion of routes of medication administration
• Expanded medication error information includes “near-miss “errors
• Updated content features newer drugs and the most up-to-date labels for all medications
• Expanded discussion of oral medications features improved format with charts for easier reading
• Expanded discussion on types of insulin includes a discussion of insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio and updates on the types of syringes available, including the U-50 dual syringe
• Updated Heparin chapter covers target-specific anticoagulants
• This title is also available in Sherpath! Sold separately, this innovative teaching and learning technology offers interactive course content and resources that streamline class preparation and assessment and give students personalized help to reach their learning goals. Sherpath fully includes the ebook of this title for all-in-one digital course delivery.