Do you still have to do dosages math by hand as an RN now?

Nurses General Nursing

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So I'm in my first semester and we're about to start on meds and knowing how to calculate. It seems pretty easy, we haven't started the subject but looking at the pp slides, it seems like it.

I'm pretty good in math and love math like crazy lol. Science I'm kind of bad in it but after a while I get the hang of it.

Anywho, so I was thinking today, "well as an RN at the job, would we still have to take out a piece of paper and calculate the dose on hand, how many tablet there are, expected dose, etc?"

How do you all do it on the job? Do your hospitals system automatically does it or what? I'm not worried about it. But I'm really curious, I'm always asking why to things that may not matter to others but matter to me [emoji4]

Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

Yes. Desired/have x ml. I have used in clinicals to help the nurses on certain med calcs

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