Do your students find maths challenging?

Would you like to be able to give your students more personalised support and feedback?

Would you like to provide more support for students with varying mathematical ability?

Since 2001, MyMathLab has helped over 5 million students succeed at maths at more than 1,850 colleges and universities Worldwide.

Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab is the perfect package to help your students prepare for their 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.

An online personalised MyMathLab study plan helps to diagnose individual student strengths and weaknesses and provides further interactive practice. MyMathLab also provides instant support at the click of a button, ensuring that students have help at their fingertips whatever the time of day, and 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 increase student confidence.  

Your purchase of this text includes a Student Access Code in the back of the book you should use to register and begin using MyMathLab.

Visitwww.pearsoned.co.uk/shihab with your code to login or register for MyMathLab.

If you did not purchase a new textbook and your lecturer requires you to enrol in MyMathLab, you may purchase online access. Go to www.pearsoned.co.uk/shihab and follows the links to purchase online.

"Shihab draws on her 25 years of teaching experience to provide a text devoted specifically to competency in the often-dreaded area of maths for student nurses." - THES, Feb 2010 

"MyMathLab is really good. I especially like the common clinical measurements and physiological measurement questions because I can really relate them to practice. I even take the book to practice with me because it is such an easy read for me as I have never worked in healthcare before. I feel like I have learnt a lot from the book."-Wayne Fleming, Nursing Student, Manchester Metropolitan University

Chapters

Chapter 1      Basic Arithmetic Skills

The things you don’t want to ask about but need to know.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from the beginning to give you confidence for tackling the chapters involving drug calculations.

Chapter 2      Decimals and Other Fractions

How to deal with the bits and pieces.

Using the skills from chapter 1 to calculate vulgar and decimal fractions in preparation for calculating small drug doses.                           

Chapter 3      SI Units

How’s your French? You only need one phrase ‘Système International d’Unités’.

Learn about units that are used to record patients’ height, weight, temperature and fluid balance as well as measurements used for drug therapy.

Chapter 4     Drug calculations

Pills, potions and pinpricks.

Calculating all types of drug treatments – tablets, medicines and injections

Chapter 5      Drug concentrations

The jokers in the pack.

Calculating drugs that are not measured in SI units.

Chapter 6      Per cent, percentage and ratios

Hundreds and thousands and much more.

Find out how much 20% off really means and learn to calculate the amount of drug is in a percentage solution.

Chapter 7      Intravenous fluid and drug administration

Drips, drops and devices

Intravenous fluids need to be given over a prescribed period of time. This chapter shows you how to do the calculations using different types of fluid administration devices.

Chapter 8      Common Clinical Measurements

Charting, charting and more charting.

Taking and recording patients’ vital signs forms an important part in monitoring their progress to recovery. This chapter shows you how to record this information accurately.

Chapter 9      Physiological Measurements

Blood, but no sweat and tears.

Get to know what is normal and recognise the abnormal. Monitor patients’ nutritional status and be aware of the energy value of food.

Chapter 10   Statistics and reading research articles

No ostriches here please.

A gentle introduction to some of the terms used in journal articles and knowing what to look for when reading articles in preparation for assignments and completing portfolios.

Appendices

I                   Roman numerals and their Arabic equivalent

 II                   Multiples and divisions of SI units

III                   Important elements in the body. Isotopes and Avogadro’s constant.

IV                    Physiological reference values for adults

V                    Abbreviations used in prescribing

VI & VII                    Peak flow measurements

For Students

• An initial test will work out areas you need the most practice in so that you overcome your weakest points and numeracy becomes easy
• At the click of a button in MyMathLab you receive personal tutoring and immediate feedback on individual questions
• ‘Help Me Solve This’ shows you a break down of the question, and explanation on how to tackle it

·         There are thousands of MyMathLab practice questions to try!

·         Web links direct you to further reading and examples

For Lecturers

·         You can easily customise the MyMathLab for Shihab, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare to suit your specific course and student needs.

• A powerful gradebook enables you to review student progress individually and against specific areas of study so that topics on which students struggle become instantly apparent. 

• Simple assessment building tools enable you to produce self-marking, multi-facetted question tests in minutes, not the weeks these would normally take to write, distribute and mark.

Pearl Shihab has wide experience of nursing and midwifery in both hospital and community settings.  She has spent the last eleven years teaching biosciences on healthcare programmes and supporting students lacking in maths skills.