Thanks all for your responses. Geez, I think they ought to offer a course on how to figure out where to get a license, how to get endorsement. I think I'd rather take calculus! LOL Well I'm fairly...
A book you might consider is Math for Nurses - a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation. Clinical Calculations - with applications to general and specialty
Depending on the subjects you are covering, I have found going to the end of each assigned chapter and reading the "things you should know" summaries are helpful. Another thing I've been doing is 1...
Order 16mcg/kg/min of a med Supply 80mg of med in 100 mL NS Pt wt 176 lbs 1. convert 16 mcg to mg = 0.16mg 2. 80kgx0.16mg = 1.28mg/min. 2. 1.28mg/min x 60min = 76.8mg/hr 4. 76.8mg/hr divided by 80mg...
First, know you get out of it what you put in to it. For us we meet on friday afternoon and get out patient information and introduce ourselves to our patient. Friday evening you go home and write...
In our class its very much like you descrribe, mostly online and then everyone has busy lives, work, kids and of course school. What we did is we created our own website with areas to post questions,...
I found myself changing alot of correct answers early on in the program and met with my clinical instructor to discuss strategies. She suggested I take practice NCLEX questions one hour a day and...
The key to answering this problem is looking at what you have and what they want You are infusing at 19mL/hr You have 250mL D5W containing 25,000 units They want units /hr. See the tubing and drip...