Essential Calculations for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians
- 4th Edition - February 22, 2022
- Authors: Terry Lake, Nicola Green
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 4 0 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 3 6 1 - 5
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Request a sales quoteLearn to easily master the types of veterinary nursing calculations you will face on the job with Essential Calculations for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians, 4th Edition. From basic arithmetic to dilutions and statistics, this useful text covers all aspects of calculations as applied to veterinary nursing. Readers will benefit from the text’s common-sense approach to clinical situations and complete the book knowing how to use calculations to determine dosage rates, anesthetic flow rates, radiography exposure rates, parenteral nutrition, and more. User-friendly features include simple language, detailed explanations, ample examples, and special author guidance so that content is easy to follow and understand. Plus, the text’s abundance of learning features — such as self-assessment questions, clinical hints, and tips — help clarify important concepts and ensure that you have mastered everything you need to make calculations in the day-to-day clinical environment.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Evolve Student Resources
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Review of basic maths
- What is a fraction?
- What is a decimal?
- Working with decimals
- Working with percentages
- What is scientific notation?
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 2. Methods of solving for the unknown
- Ratio and proportion
- Dimensional analysis
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 3. Clinical applications of basic principles
- Questions
- Use ratio and proportion equations to solve the following
- Use dimensional analysis to solve the following
- Answers
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 4. Measurement systems
- The metric system
- Other systems of measure
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 5. Calculating medication dosages
- Types of oral medication
- What is parenteral administration?
- Reconstituting powders
- Working with percent concentration
- Administering insulin
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 6. Solutions
- Making weaker solutions from stock solutions
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 7. Intravenous fluids and constant rate infusions
- Intravenous fluid administration
- Constant rate infusions
- Adding drugs to i.v. fluids
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 8. Dilutions
- What is a dilution?
- Dilution series
- Serial dilutions
- Immunology applications
- Microbiology applications
- Haematology applications
- Haemocytometers
- Clinical problems using dilutions
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 9. Anaesthesia, radiology and nutrition applications
- Anaesthesia gas flow rates
- Radiology calculations
- Nutritional calculations
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Chapter 10. Statistics and quality control
- Measures of central tendency
- Normal distribution
- Statistics and quality control
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers
- Index
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: February 22, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702084010
- eBook ISBN: 9780323833615
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Terry Lake
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