As healthcare professionals, you will encounter numbers in a wide variety of situations in practice, whether in calculating drug dosages or in other areas crucial to patient safety. This book will be an invaluable resource to support your learning of essential numeracy skills for clinical practice.

With illustrations from across a range of healthcare contexts, you will learn step by step methods to solve realistic calculations. This book will be a useful tool to help you conquer the essential skills required in healthcare practice, as well as a support during revision for numeracy tests.

Key features include:

• Worked examples demonstrate the steps involved in different types of calculations
• ‘Good practice point’ boxes highlight information to help to improve your skills and ensure you are a safe and competent practitioner
• Clinical charts, prescription labels and diagrams illustrate patient scenarios
An essential, practical textbook for all students and healthcare practitioners using numeracy in their clinical practice, including nurses, midwives, health visitors and operating department practitioners, this book is also suitable as a primer for pharmacy students and non-medical prescribers.

The material in this book is also available in McGraw-Hill Connect^TM which gives you different ways to learn and practice your skills.

McGraw-Hill Connect is a digital teaching and learning environment that improves performance over a variety of critical outcomes. It is easy to use and proven effective.

SmartBook^TM is the first and only adaptive reading experience available today and is fuelled by LearnSmart^TM – which is the most widely used and intelligent adaptive learning resource that is proven to strengthen memory recall, improve course retention and boost grades.


To access Connect with SmartBook for 360 days, use the Connect code printed inside the book front cover.