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Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Nurses

Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Nurses

Authors: Larry Stephens, Lana C. Stephens and Eizo Nishiura

Published: December 2002

eISBN: 9780071425872 007142587X | ISBN: 9780071400220

Copyright

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 Whole Number Arithmetic

1.1 NUMBER

1.2 THE BASE TEN SYSTEM

1.3 READING NUMERALS

1.4 EXPANDED FORM

1.5 THE FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS

1.6 ORDER OF OPERATIONS (FOR ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION)

1.7 ADDITION OF WHOLE NUMBERS

1.8 SUBTRACTION OF WHOLE NUMBERS

1.9 MULTIPLICATION OF WHOLE NUMBERS

1.10 DIVISION OF WHOLE NUMBERS

1.11 DIVISORS AND PRIME NUMBERS

1.12 THE GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR (GCD)

1.13 THE LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE (LCM)

CHAPTER 2 Working with Fractions

2.1 THE MEANING OF FRACTIONS

2.2 EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS

2.3 REDUCING FRACTIONS

2.4 BUILDING UP FRACTIONS

2.5 MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS

2.6 DIVISION OF FRACTIONS

2.7 COMPLEX FRACTIONS

2.8 ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS WITH A COMMON DENOMINATOR

2.9 THE LEAST COMMON DENOMINATOR (LCD)

2.10 ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS WITH DIFFERENT DENOMINATORS

2.11 MIXED NUMBERS

2.12 CALCULATIONS WITH MIXED NUMBERS

2.13 COMPARING FRACTIONS

CHAPTER 3 Decimal Numerals

3.1 DECIMAL NOTATION

3.2 ROUNDING DECIMAL NUMERALS

3.3 ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF DECIMALS

3.4 MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS

3.5 DIVISION OF DECIMALS

3.6 MULTIPLYING AND DIVIDING BY POWERS OF TEN

3.7 PROBLEMS INVOLVING DECIMALS AND FRACTIONS

3.8 COMPARING DECIMAL NUMERALS

CHAPTER 4 Metric, Apothecary, and Household Measurements—Dimensional Analysis

4.1 WEIGHT AND VOLUME

4.2 THE METRIC SYSTEM

4.3 THE APOTHECARY SYSTEM

4.4 ROMAN NUMERALS

4.5 THE HOUSEHOLD SYSTEM

4.6 RATIOS

4.7 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

4.8 METRIC CONVERSIONS

4.9 CONVERSIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 5 Oral Medication

5.1 CONVERTING MEDICAL DOSAGES

5.2 ORAL MEDICATION IN SOLID FORM

5.3 ORAL MEDICATION IN LIQUID FORM

5.4 RECONSTITUTING POWDERS OR CRYSTALS TO LIQUID FORM

CHAPTER 6 Parenteral Drug Administration

6.1 DRUGS ADMINISTERED BY INJECTION

6.2 INJECTABLES IN POWDER OR CRYSTAL FORM

6.3 INTRAVENOUS INFUSION

6.4 INSULIN ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER 7 Pediatric Dosages

7.1 DOSAGES BASED ON BODY WEIGHT

7.2 DOSAGES BASED ON BODY SURFACE AREA

CHAPTER 8 Percentages

8.1 PERCENTAGE

8.2 CHANGING PERCENTAGES TO EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS

8.3 CHANGING PERCENTAGES TO EQUIVALENT DECIMAL NUMERALS

8.4 CHANGING DECIMAL NUMERALS TO EQUIVALENT PERCENTAGES

8.5 CHANGING FRACTIONS TO EQUIVALENT PERCENTAGES

8.6 PERCENTAGE OF A NUMBER

8.7 FINDING THE PERCENTAGE GIVEN THE PART AND THE BASE

8.8 FINDING THE PART GIVEN THE PERCENTAGE AND THE BASE

8.9 FINDING THE BASE GIVEN THE PERCENTAGE AND THE PART

8.10 PERCENTAGE STRENGTH OF SOLUTIONS

CHAPTER 9 Using the Electronic Calculator

9.1 CALCULATORS FOR NURSING

9.2 ELEMENTARY CALCULATIONS

9.3 EXTENDED CALCULATIONS

9.4 WORKING WITH FRACTIONS ON THE CALCULATOR

9.5 DOSAGE CALCULATIONS

9.6 THE PERCENT KEY

CHAPTER 10 Statistics for Nurses

10.1 STATISTICS FOR NURSING

10.2 BAR CHARTS AND PIE CHARTS FOR CATEGORICAL DATA

10.3 HISTOGRAMS AND DOT PLOTS FOR NUMERICAL DATA

10.4 NUMERICAL MEASURES FOR DESCRIBING NUMERICAL DATA

10.5 PROPERTIES OF PROBABILITY AND THE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

10.6 THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

10.7 POPULATION AND SAMPLE

10.8 ESTIMATING POPULATION MEANS AND PERCENTAGES

10.9 TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT MEANS AND POPULATION PERCENTAGES

APPENDIX A Temperature Conversions

APPENDIX B Some Commonly Used Medical Symbols and Abbreviations

INDEX