NCLEX Medication Calculation Questions

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Hi everybody, I'm taking the NCLEX exam tomorrow for the second time and I really feel anxious, especially about those medication calculation questions, I'm really good at math but I'm not sure about the conversions, for example from oz to ml and gram to oz and from gr to ml and gram. I have three books and each one of them is giving a different values, for example one of them (Saunders) says 1 gr= 60-65 ml, and I know NCLEX only knows one definite value not a range. I need help urgent please, I have saunders, kaplan, and Hoefler. which one do I go with? I'm really confused. I think this is the reason that most of the test takers miss this kinda questions.:crying 2:

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Specializes in Med Surg, LTC, Home Health.

1 gr=60mg

1 oz=30ml

Grains convert to milligrams.

Forget about grams to ounces as that would be different than the fluid ounces we use.

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Thank you so much, is that all I need to know besides mg to mcg, and g to mg, and oz to ml and cups and tablespoons and teaspoons? please tell me if there any other thing that hit me with, I heard some people talking about mg to milliunits. Thanks

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hi everybody, i'm taking the nclex exam tomorrow for the second time and i really feel anxious, especially about those medication calculation questions, i'm really good at math but i'm not sure about the conversions, for example from oz to ml and gram to oz and from gr to ml and gram. i have three books and each one of them is giving a different values, for example one of them (saunders) says 1 gr= 60-65 ml, and i know nclex only knows one definite value not a range. i need help urgent please, i have saunders, kaplan, and hoefler. which one do i go with? i'm really confused. i think this is the reason that most of the test takers miss this kinda questions.:crying 2:

i would know the conversions that bradleyrn suggested and also know how to do math problems such as mcg/kg/min....it seems those have been popping up alot.

here is a website that someone suggested in another thread so i am posting it here for you in hopes it will help. best of luck to you on the nclex exam, i am confident you will do great! :up:

http://home.sc.rr.com/nurdosagecal/

jadu1106

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Specializes in LTC, wound care.

Milli is a prefix meaning "one thousandth". Example: One gram = 1,000 milligrams. See? One Unit= 1,000 milliunit.

Good luck on your test today.:up:

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