Do you find maths challenging?

Do you struggle with drug calculations or clinical applications of numeracy?

If this is your first time studying mathematics or you just need to brush up your skills, Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab is the perfect package to help prepare you for your nursing program.

The textbook starts out with basic adding and subtracting and works up to more advanced principles like SI units, drug administration and common clinical measurements. Your online personalised MyMathLab study plan helps to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and provides further interactive practice.

MyMathLab also provides instant support at the click of a button, ensuring that you 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 you increase your confidence and excel in your studies and career.  

Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare with MyMathLab will help students to make drug calculations, calculate the body mass index (BMI) of a patient, read and interpret a blood result back from the lab, be able to interpret demographic data, and work out the nutritional intake for a patient and measure a patient’s blood pressure, pulse, and temperature.

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

Review of MyMathLab:

"Numeracy is an area of concern in all professional preparation whether in healthcare or not. MyMathlab would appear to offer a valuable resource that both academics and their students could make use of in support of their studies. I think the gradebook function in Mymathlab could be very helpful in identifying numeracy issues that not only individuals but groups of students may be struggling with and aid the directing of lecturer and student efforts where the learning is most needed. MyMathlab  could also be a very powerful resource in setting challenges and supporting the provision of rapid feedback on progression learning (or performance) which students find very helpful in supporting their learning."
- Charlie McGory, Deputy Head of School of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, Thames Valley University 

Reviews of the textbook:

'Clear, concise and relevant information given in a very user friendly way, well contextualised to nursing and this will make the concepts "real" to students.' -  Maggie Davidson, University of Hertfordshire

'It is much more than a numeracy book, great examples of theory in practice.' - James Richardson, Curriculum Support Manager, Directorate of Nursing, University of Liverpool

"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

"Very useful tool to assist students with numeracy skills" - Paul McCreary, NHS Foundation Trust

About the author

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.

GET MORE OUT OF YOUR TEXTBOOK WITH MYMATHLAB

MyMathLab puts you in control of your own learning by providing a personalised, self-paced experience and instant support and tutoring. Since 2001, MyMathLab has helped over 5 million students succeed at maths at more than 1,850 colleges and universities Worldwide.

For Lecturers

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

• A powerful gradebook enables the lecturer 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 the lecturer to produce self-marking, multi-facetted question tests in minutes, not the weeks these would normally take to write, distribute and mark.