About Medication Dosage Calculation Skills Online

The administration of medicines is an important aspect of what registered nurses and midwives do in clinical practice. To be able to administer medicines safely, nurses and midwives must possess key knowledge and skills. The mastery of these skills requires the ability to understand the medication dosage or IV infusion-rate problem the learner is attempting to solve, and the ability to perform some simple arithmetic.

This foundation program assists learners to:

• Understand the essential clinical features of dosage & rate problems.
• Recall and develop the computation skills required to accurately calculate dosages and IV infusion rates.
• Practice at their own pace and continually assess and evaluate their learning and understanding.

Learners will work through 6 modules that combine to provide the understanding and skills required to safely and accurately perform medication dosage calculations in clinical practice.

• Introduction
• Prescriptions and SI Units
• Tablets and Capsules
• Liquid Medicines
• Injections
• IV Infusions