Nursing Calculations Cheat sheets

Rod, Male Nurse · Jan 20, 2018

Dosage calc can be a huge hurdle for some students. Here is one strategy that I employ when I taught pharm and had to teach rookie students. I have a mathematical mind and I quickly showed them how "easy" dosage calc was by doing it "my way" on the board. I saw mostly blank stares so i said "scratch that" and went with what the books were saying to do. Saw alot of "ah ha's" but still some blanks stares. I then has students who "did it different than me" come up and do the problem on the board. I saw that some students really grasped the concept when that student showed "their way". I had another student do the same problem their way and yielded the same results...more students understood. The key point I make to my students is that it isnt going to come to them in a day and for some of them it may take weeks to grasp but it wont happen without practice and really finding "their way" of working the problems.

chare · Jan 20, 2018

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I have attached a document with seven common formulae that I find work in nearly all of my pharmacology calculations.

7 Common Formulae.docx