Quick Review: Math for Health Care Professionals

"Math in the Real World" features help instructors reinforce how real-life health care professionals use math every day. Each chapter opens with health care professionals relating in their own words the importance of math to real-world practice.

Skill Sharpener exercises appearing throughout the chapters enable students to check their comprehension of each learning objective through hands-on application. Dozens of practice problems give your student plenty of opportunity to become proficient.

Post-tests end every chapter so that readers can ensure they have a thorough understanding of current chapter concepts before moving onto a new chapter.

Drug labels are used throughout to familiarize students with what they will see in real-world practice.

Syringes are drawn to actual size so that students can learn to easily recognize the different types of syringes.

MindTap® online student resources help you engage and transform your students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap® helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

An all-new Chapter 8: Essentials of Pre-Algebra and Geometry ensures students have a solid understanding of these concepts as they relate to real-world practice.

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current practice, chapters include expanded coverage of body mass index, 24-hour time, methods for calculating the volume of containers of various shapes and sizes, and much more.