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| Basic Calculation and Administration Skills | |
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| Review of Arithmetic for Medical Dosage Calculations | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Diagnostic Test of Arithmetic | |
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| Changing Decimal Numbers and Whole Numbers to Fractions | |
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| Changing Fractions to Decimal Numbers | |
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| Rounding Decimal Numbers | |
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| Multiplying and Dividing Decimal Numbers | |
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| Multiplying and Dividing Fractions | |
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| Complex Fractions | |
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| Percentages | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Drug Administration | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Who Administers Drugs? | |
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| The Drug Administration Process | |
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| The Right Drug | |
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| The Right Dose | |
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| The Right Route | |
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| The Right Time | |
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| The Right Patient | |
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| Drug Orders | |
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| Drug Labels | |
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| Drug Package Inserts | |
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| Medication Administration Records | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Dimensional Analysis | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Systems of Measurement for Dosage Calculations | |
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| The Apothecary, Household, and Metric Systems | |
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| Objectives | |
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| The Apothecary System | |
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| Liquid Volume in the Apothecary System | |
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| Weight in the Apothecary System | |
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| Roman Numerals | |
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| The Household System | |
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| Liquid Volume in the Household System | |
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| Weight in the Household System | |
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| The Metric System | |
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| Liquid Volume in the Metric System | |
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| Weight in the Metric System | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Converting from One System of Measurement to Another | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Equivalents of Common Units of Measurement | |
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| Metric-to-Apothecary Conversions | |
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| Apothecary-to-Metric Conversions | |
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| Household-to-Apothecary or Household-to-Metric Conversions | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Common Medication Preparations | |
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| Calculating Oral Medication Doses | |
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| Objectives | |
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| One-Step Conversions | |
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| Dosage by Body Weight | |
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| Calculating Dosage by Body Surface Area | |
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| Nomogram | |
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| Multistep Conversions | |
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| Practice Reading Labels | |
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| Case Study 6.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Syringes | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Common Types of Syringes | |
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| Other Types of Syringes | |
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| Case Study 7.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Preparation of Solutions | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Strength of Solutions | |
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| Pure Drugs in Liquid Form | |
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| Pure Drugs in Dry Form | |
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| Preparing Solutions from Pure Drugs | |
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| Diluting Stock Solutions | |
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| Case Study 8.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Parenteral Medications | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Parenteral Medications Supplied as Liquids | |
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| Heparin | |
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| Parenteral Medications Supplied in Powdered Form | |
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| Case Study 9.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Specialized Medication Preparations | |
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| Calculating Flow Rates for Enteral Solutions and Intravenous Infusions | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Introduction to Intravenous and Enteral Solutions | |
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| Enteral Solutions | |
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| Intravenous Fluids | |
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| Intravenous Solutions | |
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| Equipment for IV Infusions | |
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| Calculating the Flow Rate of Infusions | |
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| Calculating the Flow Rate of Enteral Solutions | |
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| Case Study 10.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Calculating Flow Rates for Intravenous Medications and Duration of Flow | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Intravenous Piggyback Infusions | |
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| Intravenous Piggyback Medications | |
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| Calculating Flow Rates Based on Body Weight | |
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| Calculating Flow Rates Based on Body Surface Area | |
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| Calculating the Duration of Flow for IV and Enteral Solutions | |
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| Case Study 11.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Calculating Pediatric Dosages | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Calculating Drug Dosages by Body Weight | |
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| Calculating Drug Dosages by Body Surface Area | |
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| BSA Pediatric Nomogram | |
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| Pediatric Intravenous Dosages | |
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| Case Study 12.1 | |
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| Practice Sets | |
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| Cumulative Review Exercises | |
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| Comprehensive Self-Tests | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Answers Section | |
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| Common Abbreviations on Medication Orders | |
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| Units of Measurement in Metric, Household, and Apothecary Systems | |
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| Dosage Preparation Forms and Packaging | |
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| Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature Conversions | |
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| Tables of Weight Conversions | |
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| Nomograms | |
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| Ratio and Proportion Method for Dosage Calculation | |
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| Index | |