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Calculation Skills for Nurses

ISBN: 978-1-118-44891-5

April 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

208 pages

Description

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.

About the Author

Claire Boyd is Practice Development Trainer in the Learning and Research Centre at North Bristol Healthcare Trust. She develops, designs, delivers and evaluates learning programmes and contributes in ensuring effective clinical governance. She organises the transition training program for student nurses and support of these nurses in clinical areas.

Features
  • Part of the Student Survival Skills series, an exciting new series for student nurses
  • A pocket-sized, portable textbook for pre-registration nursing students to use in the classroom or on their clinical placement
  • Developed by students, for students: tips, advice and words of wisdom from real-life students included throughout
  • An essential topic for all pre-registration nursing students
  • Applicable to all fields of nursing- with examples from adult, mental health, paediatric and midwifery
  • Ties in with the NMC standards for pre-registration education and the Essential Skills Clusters