Dosage for solid medicine

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Who is this resource for?

This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.

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Understand how to improve your confidence and competence when using maths as part of your nursing role. Use this resource to learn more about the importance of having sound maths skills for the provision of safe nursing care.

Safety in numbers

Develop your maths skills with this step-by-step method to facing number challenges at work. Using the acronym ‘PEACE’, learn how to plan, estimate, approach, calculate and evaluate your answer.

When administrating medication to patients in small doses, prescriptions are commonly written in grams and milligrams. Use this resource to build your knowledge and confidence when it comes to converting metric units accurately.

Learn the skills needed to estimate the answer to a number problem before you calculate it. This resource looks at how to spot mistakes with calculating doses and why simplifying the numbers will help you to reach the correct answer.

Find out more about how to calculate the right amount of liquid medicine to give a patient. Use practice examples to help you with your approach and explore the two main ways of calculating dosage, using mental arithmetic or a formula.

Learn more about how to calculate the required dosage of tablets to give to a patient, using the ‘PEACE’ problem-solving method. This resource looks at the different ways you might use mental arithmetic to work out and check your answer.

Increase your knowledge when it comes to calculations relating to giving fluid medicines over a period of time (continuous infusions), for example, drugs provided intravenously through an IV line.