# NUR219 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. Topics include: dimensional analysis, metric, household and apothecary systems of measurement, equivalents, abbreviations, conversions, oral meds, parenteral meds, 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: [MTH131](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/MTH131 "View MTH131")

**Corequisites:** None

## Programs offering this course

- [Nursing (BSN)](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/bsn-degree-bachelor-of-science-nursing)

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