I work in an outpatient surgery facility (I am spoiled with no weekends, holidays, or late nights) and wanted to share something with y'all. It is an emergency drug dosage calculator......one that you can carry in your pocket. You pick the drug to administer, enter the parameters, pt. information, and it does all the calculating for you!! No pens/paper/calculators!! We are buying one to keep on our crash cart at our facility. It was designed by an RN for nurses who work in the ER and Critical care areas, but it also is a wonderful idea for facilities like mine. If any of you are interested, it will be on the market within a few weeks and I can get you the information (it is also going to be affordable), just get your email address to me. No, I am not a salesman for the company, just a nurse who wants to get the word out about this wonderful new device.
re: dosage calcs, I know this is only partially relevant to your thread, and it also makes me look a bit dweeb...
but I actually enjoyed the dosage calc parts of our classes in nursing school, hardly ever got a ? wrong, like to work out my own on paper in ICU for drips before I start anything, help new nurses or students learn how to work them, and have even started going back to counting drip rates of everything, even though we use pumps for basically everything.
My grandfather passed on as a result of a faulty calc/med error, so subconsciously maybe this has something to do with this, but whatever, I think it's actually quite interesting and cool to be in the know.
But I digress... I would be interested in a calc, if it's simple and small. thanks-
Hi can you contac me,or write, I want to now more about the wonderful device you say here.
Hi,
I work in an outpatient surgery facility (I am spoiled with no weekends, holidays, or late nights) and wanted to share something with y'all. It is an emergency drug dosage calculator......one that you can carry in your pocket. You pick the drug to administer, enter the parameters, pt. information, and it does all the calculating for you!! No pens/paper/calculators!! We are buying one to keep on our crash cart at our facility. It was designed by an RN for nurses who work in the ER and Critical care areas, but it also is a wonderful idea for facilities like mine. If any of you are interested, it will be on the market within a few weeks and I can get you the information (it is also going to be affordable), just get your email address to me. No, I am not a salesman for the company, just a nurse who wants to get the word out about this wonderful new device.
Epocrates' drip rate calculator will make you a chart. It's for palm pda devices. So the other day when I had to do my own math for dopamine, I was attempting to use that little feature. Heh. Tip: When it asks how much drug in bag, do not put 0.4 grams in there, click the "grams" word and it will drop down a menu so you can put mg, g, or mcg in the thing and it will be in numbers larger than 1. My calc was telling me it could not do the thing because it wanted positive numbers.
So now that I've done it myself, pulled my hair out and such, I figured out to work it correctly for the next time I'm in a hurry.
I work in an outpatient surgery facility (I am spoiled with no weekends, holidays, or late nights) and wanted to share something with y'all. It is an emergency drug dosage calculator......one that you can carry in your pocket. You pick the drug to administer, enter the parameters, pt. information, and it does all the calculating for you!! No pens/paper/calculators!! We are buying one to keep on our crash cart at our facility. It was designed by an RN for nurses who work in the ER and Critical care areas, but it also is a wonderful idea for facilities like mine. If any of you are interested, it will be on the market within a few weeks and I can get you the information (it is also going to be affordable), just get your email address to me. No, I am not a salesman for the company, just a nurse who wants to get the word out about this wonderful new device.
Keep up the great posts!
Marie
Hi could you email me the information to get the emergency dosage calculator? Thanks
I'm in! I am designing an Intermediate Care unit and my formerly med-surg staff is worried about the drugs. I would love to be able to offer them this.
I work in an outpatient surgery facility (I am spoiled with no weekends, holidays, or late nights) and wanted to share something with y'all. It is an emergency drug dosage calculator......one that you can carry in your pocket. You pick the drug to administer, enter the parameters, pt. information, and it does all the calculating for you!! No pens/paper/calculators!! We are buying one to keep on our crash cart at our facility. It was designed by an RN for nurses who work in the ER and Critical care areas, but it also is a wonderful idea for facilities like mine. If any of you are interested, it will be on the market within a few weeks and I can get you the information (it is also going to be affordable), just get your email address to me. No, I am not a salesman for the company, just a nurse who wants to get the word out about this wonderful new device.
Keep up the great posts!
Marie
Hello I'm replying to an old post regarding emergency pocket dose calculators .I am interested in purchasing this device. Please post or contact me via email Ty
Just wondering if anyone who had posted recently (less than 1yr ago) had gotten any information from the original poster about this calc??? If you had, does it work well??? Just wondering
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re: dosage calcs, I know this is only partially relevant to your thread, and it also makes me look a bit dweeb...
but I actually enjoyed the dosage calc parts of our classes in nursing school, hardly ever got a ? wrong, like to work out my own on paper in ICU for drips before I start anything, help new nurses or students learn how to work them, and have even started going back to counting drip rates of everything, even though we use pumps for basically everything.
My grandfather passed on as a result of a faulty calc/med error, so subconsciously maybe this has something to do with this, but whatever, I think it's actually quite interesting and cool to be in the know.
But I digress... I would be interested in a calc, if it's simple and small. thanks-
-nearly 2 years in the ICU and proud!