How to perform drug calculations for the safe administration of oral medications
The ability to accurately perform oral drug calculations is an essential clinical skill to keep patients safe and ensure that they do not receive suboptimal treatment. This module explores oral medication calculations and allows you to learn, practice and update your numerical skills.
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Update your knowledge and skills to ensure you calculate oral medicines correctly. Learning aims and intended outcomes After reading this module, you should be able to: Explain why it is necessary to undertake accurate drugs calculations, in accordance with professional standards and a regulatory code of practice Understand the more common formulae and processes to undertake accurate drug calculations for the safe administration of oral medications Evaluate your level of competence in undertaking drug calculations for oral medicines Disclaimer Please note that information provided by RCNi Learning is not sufficient to ensure competence in the skill. Assessment of competence should take place in line with local practice. Practice should always align with local protocols and procedures, latest guidelines and any regulatory code. All modules should currently be viewed together with available national and local Covid-19 guidelines. For advice, go to www.rcn.org.uk/covid-19
Resource last reviewed
5 Apr 2023
