Dosage Calc Help

Apple-Core, ASN, BSN, RN · Nov 6, 2018

gr = grain

1gr = ~65 mg

From that info you should be able to work it out â˜ºï¸

NursingHopeful95, ADN · Nov 6, 2018

gr = grain
1gr = ~65 mg
From that info you should be able to work it out â˜ºï¸

Thank you so much!

I figured it out. I've never worked with grains before so this is so new to me.

Wuzzie · Nov 6, 2018

Thank you so much!
I figured it out. I've never worked with grains before so this is so new to me.

And you won't work with them again once you are out of nursing school so don't worry.

ETA:unless you work with a physician who is at least 70 years old.

JKL33 · Nov 10, 2018

Also any tips and advice for dosage calc is Greatly appreciated.

My tip is to not make it what it isn't just because it's nursing. For the most part it is basic jr. high (or even elementary-level) math. You have to know how many mg are in 1 grain (gr), and once you know that (via your favorite search engine) it's an elementary-level multiplication problem (to get the number of mg in 5 grains instead of 1 grain), and then an elementary-level division problem to figure out the number of gr 5 ("5 grain") tablets you need. In the end, it's nothing more than 65*5 = 325, and then 600/325 = 1.8

At some point they will tell you the number of decimal places they expect you to use, and then you'll learn about actual nursing-related issues such as the fact that we won't be giving the patient 1.8 tabs of aspirin. That's down the road. But as for the math concepts, don't complicate them.

Nursing does not have special math, no matter what anyone tells you; no matter the hubbub that gets generated by trying to "nursify" it. Math is math. So I say do the math using methods you were taught as a kid or those that are most familiar to you.

[sorry. Nursing instruction pet peeve].

Good luck!