Clinical Calculations Made Easy: Solving Problems Using Dimensional Analysis
Clinical Calculations Made Simple: Solving Problems Using Dimensional Analysis Books
- ISBN13: 9780781763851
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Now in its Fourth Edition, this book presents a systematic approach to solving dosage calculation problems using dimensional analysis. The book incorporates the simple to complex approach, focusing on understanding how to problem solve. This text uses the simple-to-complex approach in teaching students clinical calculations and is, therefore, divided into four sections. 1.) Clinical Calculations introduces the concepts and includes a comprehensive pre-test. 2.) Do Problems allows the student the opportunity to refine the skills presented in section 3.)Case Studies (35) helps the student relate dosage calculations to real clinical situations. 4.) A Comprehensive Post-Test contains 25 questions allowing the instructor to assess the student’s mastery of solving clinical calculations using dimensional analysis.
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I received this book in perfect shape up, and it got to me quickly! No complaints!
Rating: 5 / 5
The administer of solving multiple factor problems is brilliant, but the problem comes from 1 UNBELIEVABLE oversight – crummy conversion factors at the very beginning. How about this for a new student from page 41 number 65: 30gr = 2g = 1800mg ( with no explanation). So my poor brain is trying to figure out how 2g = 1800 mg? Later on p52 Craig says 1gr=60 mg, but 1g also = 15 gr. Problems 6 and 7 on that page do not tell you that both conversion factors work but give different answers. The same problems continue in problem 10 of thesamepage by stating that 8dr=1oz even as 1dr also = 1 ts…but 6ts = 1oz. The arbitrary use of conversion factors without stating that other answers are possible cost me dozens of hours of grief as I progressed through the book. In my nursing school, you are expelled if you do not ace clinical calculations in the first month and have the conversion factors memorized. This book made a huge mess and I am shcocked a company like Wolters Kluwer may possibly place out such a sloppy work that involves something as life threatening as poor medical calcs. Standardize the conversion factors or clarify the answers and the book is brilliant on methodology.
Rating: 1 / 5
I haven’t ongoing using this book yet, as my classes start next week, but I was grateful to find the right product online for less than in my college bookstore. Thank you!
Rating: 5 / 5
Don’t buy from this guy. I bought a book about 3-4 weeks ago and I still haven’t recieved it yet. He never sent tracking in rank or a confirmation. The only positive experience that I can take away from this is knowing that I’ll everlastingly check somebodies history before I buy, he had a 100% satisfaction rate but only because he sold to one other person.
Rating: 1 / 5
Simply stated, too much of this book reads like a verbose dissertation. For instance, “The 4.5ml/hr is the sought after quantity and is the resolution to the problem.” p. 142
Sought after quantity…what’s incorrect with, “4.5ml/hr is the resolution!”
This type of long-windedness is evident throughout the book and is really without earn.
The author has developed equations called, “sequential method”, and “random method” to problem solve. Nurses don’t need to re-reckon simple math. The authors’ computations are confusing…and I’ve been calculating drips for 10 years.
Finally, I’d like to comment on the drug conentrations used in problems. On page 141, Dobutamine is used in a problem with a concentration of 250mg/50cc. I know that, theoretically, a nurse should be able to solve any drip problem. And perhaps the patient required extremely austere fluid parameters. But seldom, if ever, would a nurse see this concentration in real life. This drug has come premixed for years. Mixing is antiquated and, potentially, a step when errors can occur.
Still presenting drams and grains–without at least noting the utter abandonment of such measurements in this day and age–is a disservice to any new nurse.
New nurses should be presented with real-life scenarios in order to build strong clinical foundations.
These authors, I feel, are absolutely out of touch with contemporary sickbay practices and should not be authoring critical in rank.
Rating: 1 / 5