Dosage Calculations

NUR100 Dosage Calculations

College of Nursing Nursing Department

Course Description: This course prepares the student with a practical approach for preparing dosages and solutions, including calculating intravenous flow rates and pediatric dosages. Students will learn dimensional analysis, metric, household and apothecary systems of measurement, equivalents, abbreviations, conversions, oral medications, parenteral medications, intravenous rates, and pediatric dosage calculations.This is a calculations class, not a remedial or basic math course.

Credit Hours: 1.00

Prerequisites: COR105

Corequisites: NUR165, PSY108