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The US Review of Books commends “One Touch Nursing Calculations: Nursing Calculations Made Easy” by Samuel Amassah Djanie because the author’s “method provides crucial instruction to nursing staff and can potentially save lives”

“One Touch Nursing Calculations: Nursing Calculations Made Easy” is written by Samuel Amassah Djanie. He studied nursing at Bronx Community College. After that, he went to City College to pursue a B.S. in Biochemistry. He was taking a medication calculation exam at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York when he came upon this method. He did not revise his nursing calculating formulae because he was unaware that he would be taking an exam.

His back was to the wall at the time. That would be the end of his career. So, he gazed up in the air, sat down, and devised this approach. He gave it a shot, and it worked. Since then, he has used it in all of his nursing tests, and it has solved every single problem. He chose to publish this method in the hopes of making medication calculations easier for other nurses and allowing them to focus more on their patients.

In this book, Djanie, a creative advisor in a variety of professions, concentrates on supporting individuals studying and practicing nursing. A basic mathematical formula is used in his method. He starts with a simple question about how many pennies are in two dollars, which any reader can understand. To arrive at the proper result, the basic unit sought must always be placed in the numerator position and then treated with the necessary arithmetic procedures of multiplication and division.

This simple procedure, which is illustrated several times throughout Djanie’s book, can be applied in a variety of medical situations. If a doctor recommends 250 mg of medication and each prescribed tablet has 0.5 grams of the required ingredient, the nurse will apply the calculation based on their prior understanding that one gram equals 1,000 mg. The information provided grows more complicated when a list of “Medical Administration Terminologies and Standard Tables” is provided: “H” or “hr” stands for the Latin “hora,” which means “hour,” and “PO,” or “per os,” which means “by mouth.”

Here’s an excerpt from the review written by the US Review of Books’ Barbara Bamberger Scott that underscores:

“Djanie’s text offers helpful multiple-choice tests focusing on the administration of medications. The author, who also counsels through spheres such as increasing income through various means, devised this practical “one touch” formula when faced with medical questions on an unexpected exam at a hospital. Failure to pass the exam would have been ruinous, so he developed this useful method and later used it successfully for every subsequent nursing exam. Though his didactic treatise concentrates on the formulaic aspect, it also evokes images of the complicated, often on-the-spot knowledge and decision-making required by nurses and medical personnel as they administer needed help quickly and with total accuracy. His method provides crucial instruction to nursing staff and can potentially save lives.

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