Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare

Name: Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415740432
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Calculations and Practice

By Pearl Shihab

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Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is a practical guide designed to help nursing students and healthcare professionals improve their mathematics skills. Starting from basic arithmetic, it progresses to more complex topics such as SI units, drug calculations, clinical measurements, and understanding statistics in research. The book emphasises the importance of numeracy in clinical practice, aiming to boost confidence and support academic and career success.

Features include step-by-step examples, Look Out sections highlighting common errors, interactive questions to reinforce learning, key point summaries, and web links for further study.
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This book is ideally suited for nursing and healthcare students who need to strengthen their numeracy skills. It is also useful for practising healthcare professionals seeking a refresher on drug calculations and clinical maths applications.

If you need to brush up your maths skills, this is the perfect textbook to help you through your nursing programme. The text starts out with basic arithmetic and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration, common clinical measurements and how to understand statistics.

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Do you find maths challenging?

Do you struggle with drug calculations or clinical applications of numeracy? If you need to brush up your maths skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is the perfect textbook to help you through your nursing programme. The text starts with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration, common clinical measurements, and understanding statistics in research articles. By illustrating how maths is relevant to clinical practice, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare is a great tool to help you increase your confidence and excel in your studies and career.

Key features:

Step-by-step examples make understanding concepts easy.
Look Out sections highlight common mistakes.
Time to Try and What Did You Learn? questions help you apply what you have learned.
Key Point boxes provide helpful hints for good problem-solving technique.
Web links direct you to further reading and examples.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415740432

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 January 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 660g

Pages: 268

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Pearl Shihab

About the Author

Pearl Shihab has wide experience of nursing and midwifery in both hospital and community settings. She has spent the last fourteen years teaching biosciences on healthcare programmes and supporting students lacking in maths skills.

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