Math Basics for the Health Care Professional

Math Basics for the Health Care Professional by Lesmeister, Michele Benjamin. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780135126325.

Math Basics for the Health Care Professional helps trainees in a wide variety of healthcare professions to master a vital skill toward their career success. This workbook incorporates every aspect of math relevant to health care applications with a wealth practice opportunities throughout. The third edition continues to promote critical thinking through an organized presentation of instruction, practice, and self assessment. Its new features make for an even better guide to increase math proficiency. These new features include: a supplementary CD-ROM with additional sets of challenging practice tests; coverage of occupation-based units that are essential for health care personnel, including reading drug labels, medicine cups, syringes, and intravenous fluid, apothecary measurement and conversions, parenteral dosages, basic intravenous administration and basic dosage by weight units; two extra units reviewing pre-algebra basics and the metric system; and an