Biostatistics For Nurses

Detailed Features

Nurses need Biostatistics in many ways. It helps nurses to calculate and know the biological values, laboratory values, vital statistics and calculate the dosage of drugs, infusion, transfusion and their duration and also it helps to identify mistakes, abnormalities in values, and others. All these helps to plan the nursing care.

This book is designed to acquaint the nurses and nursing students with statistical techniques most commonly used and reported in the nursing literature.

Key Features

• Biostatistics for Nurses is based on the course and curricula of nursing students.
• This book is designed to provide nursing students and nurses with the knowledge and skill in applying statistics on their practice settings.
• In view of these changes, the book is organized into 20 chapters.
• Ideally, the text flows sequentially, but every effort has been made to respect the differing needs of diverse curricula and students.
• Thus, each chapter stands on its own merit and may be read independently of others.
• Every attempt has been made to maintain simple and lucid language and style so that students can grasp the subject very clearly and completely.