Dosage Calc. Study Aids before NS

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

hi everyone,

i start nursing school in the fall. i will have about a month or so before to review my a&p notes, important patho, and dosage math before school starts. i am having a hard time choosing exactly what study guide to choose.

i've heard about med math, math for nurses, and dc made incredibly easy. but i want you all to tell me what helped you most before entering school. i'd like something that starts with the basics again and then some harder things, with a healthy amount of practice questions.

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thank you all so much.

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Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

I am in nursing school and I like the Math for Meds book. It starts out very basic with decimal, division, fraction problems to dosage labels, conversions, the five rights, military time, syringes then starts to get harder with many IV problems and Insulin, heparin calculations, drug dosage problems, etc. It also comes with a CD with many problems. I recommend this book Math for Meds by Anna Curren. I hate math but I enjoyed this book and have received 100% on all my osage calc tests I've taken so far.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I agree with the previous poster. Math for Meds by Curren is excellent -- I'm a senior BSN student and I still use the book as a refresher.

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

Calculate With Confidence by Deborah Gray Morris. :up:

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

Taking Gen Chem I and doing dimensional analysis problems over and over again until we got them right. Learn that and you won't need any fancy formulas - you'll be able to solve medication problems on the fly.

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Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

There's always more than one way to come up with an answer. There is dimensional analysis in the Math for Meds book but there's other formulas out there so that way you could choose which formula you like to work out a certain problem. I love that book the IV chapters are valuable information since they give so many formulas for coming up with the same answer, one person may prefer one formula over another that's why the book is so great since once you get a formula that is easy to come up with the answer you just stick to that formula.

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I went to dosagehelp.com and did questions constantly, I even have them send me one a day. We learned about half the concepts in Block 1 and the other in Block 2, but since I had done the exact thing you are by getting a jump before you start, it was all kind of review, and a big relief as I didn't have a problem passing my dosage tests. Our instructors also included math on our regular exams, so that was nice "easy" points. Good luck!

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I went to dosagehelp.com and did questions constantly, I even have them send me one a day. We learned about half the concepts in Block 1 and the other in Block 2, but since I had done the exact thing you are by getting a jump before you start, it was all kind of review, and a big relief as I didn't have a problem passing my dosage tests. Our instructors also included math on our regular exams, so that was nice "easy" points. Good luck!

Yeah, I love dosagehelp.com. I'm signed up to get daily dosage problems too. They even provide step by step solutions on how to solve a problem if you answer it wrong.

On eagles wings-Did you check out the Mathy sticky thread here on allnurses? They have great resources on there too--much of them free.

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

Thank you everyone! I hate math so much and I just really want to get that off my shoulders to make the load easier in 1st semester.

I am going to check out this Math for Meds book asap. It sounds good. And that dosagehelp.com site sounds awesome. I love the fact that they send emails with problems. :)

I'll have to check that sticky out, dcgrrl--thank you for letting me know about it!!!

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

By the way guys, does it matter which edition I get? I don't think I want to spend fifty bucks on the latest one!!!! :eek:

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Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

I have the latest one but you can get the earlier edition. I buy previous edition text books all the time and don't really see much difference between current and the edition before.

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

Thank you, Cherish. I am a tad on the cheap side.

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