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Introduction to Medicines Calculations
This workbook has been designed for any healthcare professional requiring an understanding of drug doses and quantities and gaining confidence in performing a variety of medicines calculations. Divided into sections, it covers a variety of calculations explanations and examples with calculations practice content covering two levels of assessments; basic application and complex calculations. It should be completed after the eLearning medicines optimisation module 5 Calculating Drug Doses.
Level 1 tests your basic application of skill and understanding in:
- Preparation and administration of oral and injectable medicines
- Conversion of units
- Measurement of medicines, drug strengths and volumes
- Decimal place errors
- Moles and millimoles in solution explanation
- Paediatric calculations
- Using sources of information
Level 2 tests your skills in more complex calculations:
- Preparation and administration of oral and injectable medicines
- Calculation of infusion rates
- Calculations based on body weights
- Moles and millimoles formula and calculations
- Complex paediatric and neonatal calculations
- Renal function calculations and doses for the elderly
- Using sources of information
Additional information
This workbook contains practice example drug calculations which will help to develop the skills necessary to perform medicines calculations accurately and consistently.
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| Contributed by: | Medicines Optimisation Training Portal |
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| Licence: | Creative commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International More information on licences |
| First contributed: | 15 February 2023 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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