Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare: Calculations and Practice - Softcover

Shihab, Pearl (University Of Surrey, UK)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447922565 ISBN 13: 9781447922568

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

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If this is your first time studying mathematics or you just need to brush up your skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab Global is the perfect package to help prepare you for your nursing program.

 

The text starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration and common clinical measurements. Your online personalised study plan helps to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and provides further interactive practice. MyMathLab Global also provides instant support at the click of a button, ensuring that you never get left behind. By illustrating how mathematical theory 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.  

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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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Do you find maths challenging?

 

Do you struggle with drug calculations or clinical applications of numeracy?

 

If this is your first time studying mathematics or you just need to brush up your skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab Global is the perfect package to help prepare you for your nursing program.

 

The text starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration and common clinical measurements. Your online personalised study plan helps to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and provides further interactive practice. MyMathLab Global also provides instant support at the click of a button, ensuring that you never get left behind. By illustrating how mathematical theory 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

• Specially developed clinical scenario questions in MyMathLab Global help you to practise, understand and succeed in using your numeracy skills in everyday practical examples.
• Running words teach you the key vocabulary necessary to understand mathematical jargon
• Step-by-step examples make understanding concepts easy
• Thousands of  practice questions to try
• Look out sections highlight common mistakes
• 'Time to try' questions after each topic show how much you have learned
• The personalised study plan in MyMathLab Global  helps you keep track of your progress
• Key points provide helpful hints for good problem-solving technique
• Web links direct you to further reading and examples

 

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447922565
• ISBN 13: 9781447922568
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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