Free ebookDosage Calculation for Nurses: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Safe Medication Math

Course Description

Dosage Calculation for Nurses: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Safe Medication Math is a practical ebook course designed for nurses and nursing students who want confidence with medication calculations in real clinical settings. In Health and Nursing practice, accurate dosage calculation is essential for patient safety, clear communication, and timely care. This course builds your skills step by step, helping you translate medication orders and drug labels into correct doses, rates, and administrations.

You will strengthen core medication math with fractions, decimals, ratios, and safe rounding so your calculations stay consistent under pressure. As you progress, you will learn how to work comfortably with nursing unit conversions across metric and household measurements and apply them to common scenarios. The course connects concepts directly to everyday tasks such as calculating oral and liquid medication doses for tablets, capsules, and solutions, while reinforcing how to interpret concentrations and directions correctly.

For parenteral medications, the ebook walks you through injectable medication calculation using vials and ampules, including reconstitution and drawing up accurate volumes. You will also practice weight-based dosing such as mg per kg and mcg per kg per minute to support patient-specific medication administration. IV medication math is covered in a clear, clinical way, including IV flow rate dosage calculation in gtt per minute and mL per hour, understanding tubing drop factors, and working with infusion concentrations, dilutions, and titrated drips.

Throughout the course, dosage calculation safety checks are woven into the learning so you can spot common error risks, confirm order clarity, and build a repeatable approach for safe medication math. By the end, you will be better prepared for nursing coursework, skills labs, and real-world medication administration where accuracy matters.

Start this free ebook course today and build a reliable dosage calculation routine that supports safe, confident nursing care.