Are grains still used as units in medication?

[smk1]

Just wondering here how many of you nurses see grains as units still in medication in the states? I am currently in chemistry and the professor is focusing quite a bit on this conversion, and a paramedic in our class constantly is telling us this is unneeded as he nor any of the nurses in the ERs that he talks to have ever seen grains used. Just curious on this.

[sweetielin]

at my hospital, one doctor occasionally orders meds in grains. then we have to convert it to mg.