# 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:** All of: [COR105](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/COR105 "View COR105")

**Corequisites:** [NUR165](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/NUR165 "View NUR165"), [PSY108](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/PSY108 "View PSY108")

## Programs offering this course

- [Nursing (Practical-Diploma)](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/lpn)

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