medication dosage abbreviation

chare · Oct 8, 2008

you are probably referring to the roman numeral 1 written with a lower case i. this is a holdover from the apothecary system which used roman numbers for quantities less than 20. it was common (at least in the apothecary system) to use lower case letters, and some practitioners would draw a line over the lower case i to denote it a number.

eastern kentucky university's fundamentals of mathematics for nursing workbook addresses this on page 11.

momandstudent · Oct 11, 2008

In terms of medications, it means 1 dose. I cannot get the symbol you have written but let's say the doctor's order reads:

./. (but your symbol instead) tab Tylenol #3. This would mean you would give 1 tablet of Tylenol #3. We also use this symbol when we need to describe the assistance of one or two. Hope this helps.

spongebob6286, BSN, RN · Oct 12, 2008

it means 1..