Clinical Dosage Calculations is a local, full-colour text covering the important aspects of dosage calculations students require to deal with this essential part of clinical practice. An applied skills-focused text, Brotto uses real-life cases, worked examples and real medication charts and labels to engage students.

Starting with the fundamental skills to help students deal with mathematics and familiarise themselves with medication charts and labels, the text then moves on to specialist area chapters, allowing them to deepen their skills in a clinical context. Students engage in the activities of each chapter as an introduction to the concept before moving onto the final chapter where they can test their overall knowledge.

Got it: Dosage Calculations is an online student revision platform that enables students to check their understanding of concepts learned in class. Based on the 2nd edition of Clinical Dosage Calculations, topics range from basic arithmetic to more complex calculations of medications.

Part 1 Fundamental skills
1. Basic mathematics
2. Units of measurement
3. Medication charts
4. Using quality and risk management principles in drug calculations
5. General drug calculations
6. Infusion calculations

Part II – Skills deepening
7. Paediatric calculations
8. Aged care calculations
9. Midwifery calculations
10. Mental health calculations
11. Critical care and high dependency dosage calculations
12. Oncology calculations

Part III – Skills practice
13. Practice questions
14. Answers

Clinical Dosage Calculations is a local, full-colour text covering the important aspects of dosage calculations students require to deal with this essential part of clinical practice. An applied skills-focused text, Brotto uses real-life cases, worked examples and real medication charts and labels to engage students. Starting with the fundamental skills to help students deal with mathematics and familiarise themselves with medication charts and labels, the text then moves on to specialist area chapters, allowing them to deepen their skills in a clinical context. Students engage in the activities of each chapter as an introduction to the concept before moving onto the final chapter where they can test their overall knowledge. Got it: Dosage Calculations is an online student revision platform that enables students to check their understanding of concepts learned in class. Based on the 2nd edition of Clinical Dosage Calculations, topics range from basic arithmetic to more complex calculations of medications. Updated with NEW medication charts, including the National residential medication chart, as well as updated medication labels NEW chapter 14 Answers to activities in the text for quicker student revision, as well as online in the student companion website NEW Test bank of questions for instructors to quickly and easily set quizzes and test for student revision and assessment Got It! Dosage Calculations is a NEW extra online resource for students to access to check their mastery of the basic concepts required to do dosage calculations and get extra feedback to help them learn. Clinical case studies, in the Worked examples and Activities, give students a clinical context to help them understand the relevance of this vital skill. Worked examples help students to see the steps in the calculations. Activities follow on from worked examples and give student the chance to compare and test their understanding of the concept introduced The text also incorporates specialist area chapters of paediatrics, aged care, midwifery, critical care, high dependency and oncology areas. These chapters allow students to practice calculations commonly found in these areas, giving a clinical basis for their learning Important national concepts/initiatives such as ‘Risk Management’ and ‘Quality Use of Medicines’ are introduced in terms of their application to performing dosage calculations