Nursing needs its leaders to respond to FrancisDrug calculations in practice
Welcome to the Nursing Times Learning online training course on drug calculations in practice .
It is one of many online courses for nurses available from Nursing Times, the UK's leading independent, peer-reviewed journal for nurses.
It will teach you how to:
- Explain different units of measurements used for medicine dosages
- Correctly calculate dosages for medicines in tablet and capsule form
- Correctly calculate dosages for medicines for the weight of a patient
- Correctly calculate dosages for medicines in suspension or solution.
- Correctly calculate the administration rate for continuous IV infusions of medicines and fluids
- Recognise incorrect dosages of medicines and know how to ensure patient safety
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