Master Math Skills for Healthcare Professionals with Saunders 2nd Edition

As a healthcare professional, mastering math principles is crucial to providing top-notch patient care. Saunders Math Skills for Health Professionals, 2nd Edition, is the ultimate guide to simplify and review everyday math skills, ensuring you succeed in your career.

Practical Examples and Step-by-Step Solutions

This comprehensive textbook provides practical examples to help you solve problems step by step, clarifying fundamental math principles, including:

• Fractions and percentages
• Ratios and proportions
• Basic algebra
• Statistics

Written by expert educator Rebecca Hickey, this edition includes a new chapter on solutions and IV calculations, as well as additional practice problems with step-by-step solutions.

Engaging Workbook Format

The workbook format allows you to solve problems as you review the material, making math more accessible and friendly. The unique full-color design highlights key information and fully illustrates examples, such as:

• How to set up problems
• The different parts of equations
• How to move decimal points

Learning Objectives and Chapter Outlines

Learning objectives follow Bloom’s taxonomy, highlighting key topics in each chapter and explaining their importance in patient care. Chapter outlines and overviews serve as a framework for each chapter, providing a clear understanding of the material presented.

Mastering Math Skills

Master the Skill boxes provide quizzes to assess your knowledge of the information in each chapter. Key terms explaining mathematical computations are bolded at first mention in the text and defined in the glossary.

The spiral binding with ample white space allows you to write out your answers and work through problems in the book.

New and Expanded Content

This edition includes new and expanded content, such as:

• A chapter on solutions and IV calculations, covering topics like calculations for IV solutions and drip rate conversions
• Translation of orders written with abbreviations, use of mercury thermometers, and problems involving I&O
• Reading and writing prescriptions
• More word problems, including Practice the Skill and Building Confidence with the Skill exercises
• More focus on graph charting throughout the book
• More Math in the Real World boxes, demonstrating how mathematical concepts apply to real-world situations

With Saunders Math Skills for Health Professionals, 2nd Edition, you’ll be well-equipped to master math principles and provide exceptional patient care.