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Practical skills

How to perform drug calculations for the safe administration of oral medications

Author: Jane Brindley

Duration: 1 hour Last updated: 2024 Quality Assurance: Peer-reviewed Level: Students, Qualified nurses Language: English

Course description

Update your knowledge and skills to ensure you calculate oral medicines correctly.


Learning aims and intended outcomes

After reading this module, you should be able to:

  • Explain why it is necessary to undertake accurate drugs calculations, in accordance with professional standards and a regulatory code of practice
  • Understand the more common formulae and processes to undertake accurate drug calculations for the safe administration of oral medications
  • Evaluate your level of competence in undertaking drug calculations for oral medicines

Syllabus

  • What do you know?
  • Preparation and equipment
  • Procedure
  • Evidence base
  • What have you learned?
  • Reflective practice

Author

JB
Jane Brindley
Senior lecturer in adult nursing, School of Nursing, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, England

Disclaimer

Please note that information provided by RCNi Learning is not sufficient to ensure competence in the skill. Assessment of competence should take place in line with local practice. Practice should always align with local protocols and procedures, latest guidelines and any regulatory code. All modules should currently be viewed together with available national and local Covid-19 guidelines. For advice, go to www.rcn.org.uk/covid-19

Syllabus

  • What do you know?
  • Preparation and equipment
  • Procedure
  • Evidence base
  • What have you learned?
  • Reflective practice

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