Morris's Calculate with Confidence, Canadian Edition

Learn to calculate dosages accurately and administer drugs safely! Morris’s Calculate with Con?dence, Third Canadian Edition, uses a clear, step-by-step approach to make drug dosage calculations easy. More than 2,000 practice questions help you review basic math and then master the three standard methods of dosage calculation: ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis. With the increasing responsibility of the nurse in mind, emphasis is placed on critical thinking and clinical reasoning in preventing medication errors. Re?ecting current practice in Canadian health care, this book also provides excellent preparation for Canadian licensure exams! Practice problems and real-world examples help you master correct dosage calculations and safe medication administration, with rationales included in practice problem answers to enhance the understanding of principles. Clinical reasoning exercises build critical thinking skills, with a focus on preventing medication errors. Safety Alert! boxes highlight common medication errors and identify actions that must be taken to avoid calculation errors. Next Generation NCLEX-RN® (NGN) exam-style case studies and questions on the Evolve website provide drug calculation practice for the Next Generation NCLEX examination. Comprehensive Post-Test at the end of the book covers dosage calculations and conversions, using real-life drug labels and situations. Tips for Clinical Practice boxes summarize information critical to math calculation and patient safety. SI measurement units and generic/Canadian drug names are included throughout the text. Chapter review problems test your knowledge of all major topics presented in the chapter. Pre-Test review includes practice problems to help you assess your basic math skills and identify your strengths and weaknesses, covering fractions, decimals, percentages, and ratio and proportion. Post-Test in Unit One allows you to assess and evaluate your understanding after completing the chapters on basic math. A-Z medication index references the page numbers where drug labels can be found. NEW! Thoroughly updated content includes the latest Health Canada-approved medications, current drug labels, the latest research, Canadian statistics, commonly used abbreviations, and recommended practices related to medication errors and their prevention. NEW and UPDATED! More than 100 new or updated medication labels reflect what you will see in your career. EXPANDED! Additional practice problems added to select chapters and the Comprehensive Post-Test, as well as new questions added for veterinary technician students. NEW! Updated art program illustrates the newest and most current technologies. NEW! Learning objectives align with Bloom’s Taxonomy and correlate with major chapter sections.