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Clinical Calculations

With Applications to General and Specialty Areas

  • 9th Edition - March 2, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Joyce LeFever Kee, Sally M. Marshall, Mary Catherine Forrester, Kathryn Woods
  • Language: English

Learn to calculate drug dosages safely, accurately, and easily with Kee’s Clinical Calculations, 9th Edition! This market-leading text covers all four major drug calculation metho… Read more

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Learn to calculate drug dosages safely, accurately, and easily with Kee’s Clinical Calculations, 9th Edition! This market-leading text covers all four major drug calculation methods, including ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis. It also includes practice problems for both general care as well as specialty areas such as pediatrics, labor and delivery, critical care, and community nursing. With its market-leading, comprehensive coverage; strong emphasis on patient safety; and the incorporation of the latest information on antidiabetic agents, anticoagulant agents, drug administration techniques, and devices; Kee remains the winning choice for easy drug calculation mastery.

Key features

  • Coverage of all four major drug calculation methods includes ratio & proportion, formula, fractional equation, and dimensional analysis to help you learn and apply the method that works best for you.
  • The latest information on drug administration techniques and devices helps you master the most up-to-date techniques of drug administration, including oral, intravenous, intra-muscular, subcutaneous, and other routes.
  • Caution boxes provide alerts to problems or issues related to various drugs and their administration.
  • Information on infusion pumps covers enteral, single, multi-channel, PCA, and insulin; and explains their use in drug administration.
  • Calculations for Specialty Areas section addresses the drug calculations needed to practice in pediatric, critical care, labor and delivery, and community settings.
  • Detailed, full-color photos and illustrations show the most current equipment for IV therapy, the latest types of pumps, and the newest syringes.
  • Comprehensive post-test lets you test your knowledge of key concepts from the text.

Table of contents

Part I: Basic Math Review

Part II: Systems, Conversion, and Methods of Drug Calculation


1. Systems Used for Drug Administration and Temperature Conversion

2. Conversion within the Metric and Household Systems

3. Interpretation of Drug Labels, Drug Orders, Bar Codes, MAR and eMAR,
Automation of Medication Dispensing Administration, and Abbreviations

4. Prevention of Medication Errors

5. Alternative Methods for Drug Administration

6. Methods of Calculation

7. Methods of Calculation for Individualized Drug Dosing

Part III: Calculations of Oral, Injectable, and Intravenous Drugs

8. Oral and Enteral Preparations with Clinical Applications

9. Injectable Preparations with Clinical Applications

10. Antidiabetic Medications

11. Intravenous Preparations with Clinical Applications

Part IV: Calculations for Specialty Areas

12. Anticoagulants NEW!

13. Pediatrics

14. Critical Care

15. Pediatric Critical Care

16. Labor and Delivery

17. Home Care and Community

Part V: Post-Test: Oral Preparations, Injectables, Intravenous, and Pediatrics

Appendix A: Guidelines for Administration of Medication

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 12, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

JK

Joyce LeFever Kee

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

SM

Sally M. Marshall

Affiliations and expertise
Nursing Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Regional Office and Medical Center, Wilmington, DE, USA