Safety in numbers 1: Essential numerical and scientific principles underpinning medication dose calculation

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Young, Simon ^a   Weeks, Keith W ^a   Hutton, B Meriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fundamental clinical pharmacokinetics; Healthcare numeracy; Medicines dosage calculations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACOKINETICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; HUMANS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACOKINETICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84875378633     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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