Dosage Calculations | Nursing Drug Calculations | Med Math: Everything You Need To Know!
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2015
- This is everything you need to know about solving Dosage Calculations! This is Med Math Made Easy!
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Whoever is watching this, I saw this before nursing school and am now viewing it while in nursing school. GREAT VIDEO. Save to your favorites if your going into the nursing program!
I appreciate you!
im suscribed to both of you 😍
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I'm am already enrolled, into my second year. Hope that I do my best as I am not the best in mathematics
I watched this video last night before my dosage exam today. Just found out a minute ago that I passed. Thanks for this video.
+perfectdiva22 That's AWESOME!! You're welcome!! Congratulations! :D
There are several ways to get the answer. The way I found it to be easy is this:
1) what is the question asking? = how many "Tablet"****
So I'll write down "xTab"
2) what's your supply? = 500mg per tab
So I'll write xTab= 1tab/500mg
3) what's the doctors orders? = 1500mg
So I'll then write xTab=1tab/500mg x(times) 1500mg/1
Remember the denominator can't be left empty and since we are not looking for anything else we'll just add 1.
4) You'll cross out the Mg and now you calculate 1500/500 = 3 tabs
It'll make more sense if you actually write it out on paper. But this is how I do my drug calculations (not saying the way you do it is wrong) but I thought I'd share.
This is what I do and I cross out any like units and circle all units left to make sure that's what the question is asking and then I do the calculation.
Second semester RN student here... out of High School for 10 years and BAAAAAMMM this is Heaven sent. IDK what it is about when the instructors stand in front of the class working the problems out on the white board ( and the info completely not sticking to your brain) vs. watching Nurse Bass on RUclips (and then you think your a genius) . Maybe because I can pause and rewind him and not them.... anyway THANK YOU !!!
+Chela Ortiz Haha well that's awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful! Keep studying hard!
I am not in Nursing school yet, and how you're breaking it down makes it so easy to do. Keep it up! 👍
+Soquinthia Davis Well thank you so much! I definitely will and good luck in your prerequisites!! :D
Did u ever end up in nursing school?
You explain it so well. Im in my first semester in Lpn school and about to start dosage calculations. I remember my friends that were in nursing school talk about this subject in the past and how stressed they were. I'm trying to stay ahead of my studies and as soon as my instructor mentioned dosage calculations I started to work dosage cal.
Nurse Bass, you literally saved my life. I LOVE YOU, and I cannot thank you enough!!!
Aaron Elias
I actually found Nurse Bass, by far, the easiest to follow, his teaching technique is extremely helpful and was easierto apply. I have not been using calculations as a Nurse for 18 years and my refresher course was somewhat confusing for me regarding these calculations. Thank you Nurse Bass for the breakdown you provided.
Thank you so much for making this videos man. My PHARM class is online, not by choice, and I'm the type of learner that needs to watch something be done so that I can work the math along with someone else doing it at the same time. You just helped me SO MUCH!!!
Well thank you and I actually plan to make another Dosage Calculation video soon to break down the questions by question-type. Hope you continue to benefit from my content!
Thank you for helping me pass my nurse math test on my first attempt! I feel confident in what and how I learned from you. I've referred all my friends to this video!!
Thank Nurse Bass! Very helpful indeed, you broke it down in simple terms and what we really need to know to solve the problem!
Thank you for the videos you've been posting here on RUclips of dosage calculation it really honestly does help me I have a exam in February to pass and these videos has help me understand more. Thank you!!!
This was a great refresher on med calculations, as I haven't done them in some time. I'm interviewing for a position tomorrow and will be tested on this, so I thank you very much! Very clear and to the point, and very helpful.
so easy to understand god bless you !!!!!!
you are truly helping me so much!! thank you for doing these videos. drug calculations is still very new to me and still find it challenging but you do an excellent job at making it understandable. thank you!!
You're very welcome. I'm happy to hear the content is helping! Practice makes perfect!
Thank you so much!! Exactly what I needed!
Awesome video!! So glad I found you and this video. These are fundamentals in nursing that can be scary but you just make it simple! Thank you!
+Alice Ngo Thank you so much. I'm glad you found the channel also :) Glad to have you along for the ride!
I gratuated 12 years ago. We do not do calculation in real life as fortunately ( or not ) the IV pump does all the calculation BUT I have a NCLEX exam to do and this video saved my life. THANK YOU. It is really important to learn how to read the question and understand it. The calculation in itself it is not the big deal. Great Video.
YEP! Haven't even started yet and I'm grateful to have found him 💯
Awesome video! As an "older" nursing student, getting ready to graduate, I appreciated the camera angle and your overall lack of movement. It made the entire thing very easy to watch. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Nurse Bass. I had to take a dosage calculations test this afternoon, as part of my requirements to reenter the RN program. I had failed it last time I attempted it as math is not my strength. I watched and practiced right along with this video yesterday, as well as right before I took the test. I aced it with a 90%. Thank you for your expert help. Do you have any videos on care plans?
+Denise Odier Well that's awesome to hear! Thank you so much for sharing this with me! And YES, I have a video on Care Plans. I actually received a message similar to this one on my Care Plan video about how it helped another student get a 100% on their Care Plan, so hopefully it will help you out also. The link is below!
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I have to score a 100 on the med math exam in order to graduate from my LPN program. Thank goodness I found these videos.
I wish you well and hope they help!
Thank you so much nurse bass, this video helps me alot as my advance study since I’m taking BSN 😄
Thanks Nurse Bass, just started Rn School and math is my major weakness, this is a great video......I will be watching more of you videos, Thanks
+alfred martinez You're welcome! I hope that the videos continue to be a help to you! :)
Wow! Love the way you explain it!! Wish you were my tutor! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! 👌🏻🙏🏻🤓😊😇
Wow! You make it more understandable. I'm not in nursing school yet, but I like to watch your videos! Thank you! 😊
just what I needed! first day of class was yesterday. thanks man!
You're welcome! Good luck to you this semester
Exactly what I needed. Thank you!
I have shared this video with new nursing students & I use it to brush up on my DSG & Cal when starting a new job.
+Shanita McHaney I appreciate it! Thank you and I hope everyone finds it helpful!
All I can say is thank you!!!!! This has helped me so much.
+Gina Dillon Well all I can say is...YOU'RE WELCOME! Haha
I'm in Nursing school and this made things so much easier/clearer for me to understand!!!! I just subscribed to your channel and I will share you RUclips channels with my classmates. Thanks a million!!!!
Love your videos. You are easy to listen to and understand . God bless you
This is so nice! I’m horrible with math and really worry about it and nursing. I’m glad this seemed rather understandable. I feel Like you will def get used to it the more you do it. It doesn’t have as many variables like algebra and stuff.
Thanks for keeping it simple :) You made it SO easy!!!!
Dude I Love you. Needed you. Thanks for putting this out there!!!!!!!
Love you too buddy! You're very welcome
Hey Nurse Bass! I know you have a lot of comments on your videos but I just wanted to shout out to you. I just finished my very first week of nursing school in Florida and the nursing students in the level before us gave us tips to get through our first semester of school and someone put your name on the list of advice and tips! You are reaching us all the way in FL! I have been watching your videos even before I started school just to prepare myself the best I could. Thanks for all you do, your videos are so helpful and awesome!! I appreciate all your hard work. :)
Wonderful tutorial, I really like that you broke down the relevant information. I hope to see more of your videos. xok
your video by far is the best video that I have EVER SEEN!! THANK YOU
+charity Sanders Well thank you! I'm glad that you enjoyed it and found it helpful! :D
This helped out alot, thank you for doing this!
Thank you for this! Brushing up for the med dose exam in 112 upcoming in February.
Thanks for the video. I'm taking a dosage calculation test tomorrow for the RN program. I can only miss 1 out of 20 questions. I really feel ready after viewing your video. Thanks a Billion.
+Nichole Davis You're very welcome. Good luck to you! I hope you demolish it! >:D
Thanks so much Nurse Bass! You should definitely be a professor, the students will absolutely love you.
Thanks Bass this is great. I have orientation on Thurs and everyone's making me believe that med calculations are impossible. You've made so much sense of these examples that I was able to work ahead on some of them. Thanks alot!!!
+George Leverette Hey, no problem at all! Med Calculations are no biggie at all. They're tough at first, but once you have seen them and done plenty of practice questions, they will begin to feel like Elementary-level math. Just do tons of practice questions and you'll be alright, seriously :-)
Hi again NurseBass, can't believe I'm now seeing this video. The way you explained it was very very simple I hope I will be able to decipher what is important and what isn't and do it as easy as you did. Thanks again!!
+m2sweet4u You most definitely will! All it takes is practice, practice, practice. Do tons of practice questions and you'll be flying through the dosage calc questions in no time.
Thank you so much for the dosage calculations!!! I am dreadful at math and this made a world of difference!!! I've always hated the extra wordy questions where you don't even know what you need to use to get your answer!! Thank you!!!
You're very welcome! Practice makes perfect!
I'm at work so I watched it with no sound and took it as a practice test, checking my answers after I finished it. Good video! I thought it was funny when you included the subscribe hand part haha. I do wish I could hear what you said at key points like that but I can tell this video will help a lot of people! Props!!
NurseMurse Yea, well maybe you'll watch it again one day before Fall Semester with the sound on. But I'm glad you could at least use it as a practice test. And I HADDD to throw in the Subscriber hand hahaha
I start my RN clinicals in August, Thank you for this video!!
+Boxer Momma You're very welcome! Good luck to youuuuu
Thanks for making this, I am only in grade 10, though I know I want to go to nursing school. I am not a strong math student but this made sense, thank-you!
your tip on reconstitution helped a lot. Everything did but especially that. Thank you so much!
+Amanda Swan Well hey, that means a lot and I'm happy to hear that the content is helpful!
You are a lifesaver Nurse Bass Thank you for all the videos.
thank you very much for this!!! much well needed for my review!!!
These calculations help me with my Dietetics work! Thanks a lot!
OH WOW! So far this is the best video! Thank YOU!
+Cecilia Chacon Thank you!! I'm glad that you found it helpful!
Thank you so much! You breakdown the meaning of what is important and what words mean. I feel like a new nurse even though I have 8 years under my belt. You just shut my anxiety down! 🥰
Means a lot to hear you share those words with me
Nurse Bass,
Thank you for this, It was a great refresher. I like all of your videos.
+Gene McIntosh You're very welcome! And I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment :-D
Clear precice and to the poin, drip factor and reconstitution were always so complicated for me but yo took all the anxiety away thank you
This will def. come in handy for my med calc quiz tomorrow! Thanks for sharing.
+Marisol Santoyo You're very welcome! Hope it went well!
thank you so much, you've cleared up a few things.
I haven’t even started nursing school yet & I feel confident!! Thank you so much...you are a born educator🤛🏾🤛🏾
Thank you my friend!
Extremely well presented!! You definitely made it feel easy.
MahaloMoFo Well thank you! I'm glad that I was able to present it in an easy-to-comprehend manner and it wasn't too confusing.
Thank you! I have a test this AM. That really helped. Just subscribed!
You're very welcome! :)
I like your name
Excellent video!! Thank you! ♥️
I just love love this thanks so much
Great video as well as explanation. In my practice, we have been taught the equation: desired dose/dose on hand X supply.
Believe it or not I just RECENTLY learned of that method for solving these equations and I find it equally, if not more efficient. Best of luck in your studies! :D
Thanks so much I'm 2 semesters away from graduating and we have NO dosage Calulations test per quarter only in the first quarter. Man I tell you if you don't use it you loose it. I had to take my Hesi and I totally forgot all my Math. I made some pretty good guesses, but I can't guess in real life. I have patients lives in my hands. Thanks so much for doing this video. Very Helpful!!!
Yea it's definitely important to keep that skill sharp in your mind. But you're welcome!
Thank you for this I have learned so much in this short video
really glad that i found out another video with cross multiply technique
your videos are so easy to understand, thanks you for helping everyone who was confused like me!
+Margie Amador Well thank you so much. You're welcome and I'm glad that they're helping!
Thank you Nurse Bass!! That helped so much!
becky shelton You're most definitely welcome! Thank you for the wonderful request! =)
I looked through your videos today! great content!
+Micaela Gutlove Well thank you! I hope you find some helpful material!
Thank you so much for this video, I hope you will be able to help with y future problems
I seriously need your help. just watched one of your videos and it covers all I need to learn and right now
I'm so glad the video helped so much. I hope they all continue to!
Omg I just now found you. Your so much help.thank you!!!🧑🏼🎓🧑🏼🎓🧑🏼🎓🧑🏼🎓✅✅✅📝📝📝
Thank You sooo much for this video. I am struggling with this . This video was extremely helpful and I have subscribed to your videos for further help. Thanx again this video I pray this is gonna help me land my dream Job at dignity health.
+T Gutierrez Good luck in your pursuit of employment with Dignity Health! And thank you sooo much, I really appreciate it! Thanks for joining me in this journey and I hope to continue to put out helpful videos for you guys! :D
'mdoing surprisingly well at this for someone who's struggled with math from an early age
Thank you man i really needed this refreshing course ,i am returning to nursing from 4 year break . with 14 years experience
+Guillaume Youmans No problem at all my friend! Good luck to you whenever you start back! That's awesome.
Great video! keep up the good work!
Tina Ortiz Thank you ma'am! I definitely will :D
Thank You! I like the way you explain found other videos to be confusing :)
Well I'm always happy to hear that. Thanks for dropping a comment :D
Thank you for making this easy to understand 👍👍👍
Thank you!!! this has help me a lot in my pharm tech class
this was really helpful. thanks!
Thank you for you video!! I have my dosage test tomorrow
+Yahaira Fernandez No problem! I hope it went well! :D
This video has really made things easier for me. Thanks so much
You're welcomeee :-))))
Very helpful, thank you!
Good job, some people like doing it your way others like a simpler approach. That gets way too busy for me, you're smarter than I am to do all that extra stuff, if the math problem starts looking complicated my brain just gives up and a smell stuff burning like a circuit in a computer! LOL. D/H x Q works without all the dimensional analysis for PO meds, and anything that's not an IV or PED dose. Example: doctor orders 500 mg of robitussin PO Q6hr, pharmacy sends you robitussin 250 mg per 2 ml. it would look like this 500(order)/250(on hand or in your hand) x 2(your volume its in) = 4 ml administered, this works for PO tabs or capsules as well, you would just place a 1 in place of your volume its in. In the event its ordered as mcg instead of mg you just convert it to like/same units first, prior to setting up math problem.
Omg this helps so much! Thank you so much c:
So I just had orientation yesterday and they opened up our online course for med calc........ Guess who is going to be rewatching and rewatching your video!!!!!!!! Haha
Hope you don't mind me asking you questions?! :)
Tiffanie A Haha, sweet. And naw, I definitely don't mind! That's what I'm here for! :D
subscribed! You had me in cross multiplication 😂 taking the nclex soon I needed this soooo bad THANK YOU!!!
+Elle Khaye Haha that's funny. Well I'm happy to have you on board for this journey! I really hope you find some great helpful content here on the channel and I really do wish you luck on the NCLEX! I hope you do well!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH. GOG BLESS YOU. INFORMATION IS SO HELPFUL.
I am in my first semester of nursing school and I have a mock dosage calculation exam this morning. I want to do well and this video has helped me alot. Thank you.
+Malibeau 25 Well you're very welcome. I hope you did well!
Finished my dosage calc. class in June. I passed. However, we'll be getting tested every semester on it. I plan to watch this to brush up. Thanks for sharing!
thicknessfluffy Oh yea, that dreaded "dosage calc test" that we get every semester. Most definitely a reason to continue to keep your med math skills polished up! Thank you :D
Wow you made this sooo easy, thank you so much :)
Thank you Nursebass. Really helpful.
I'm not even a nursing student nor intend to be, but curious how hard nursing math is. This guy made it easy!
This was insanely helpful! You really simplified It! You should become a nursing instructor! :)
Thanks for the video! Im in the process of looking for new employment, so med calc is a must.
Thank you so much for this video.
Thank you for this!
Awesome video! I was wondering if we actually use kg in the nursing field for dosage calculations or if it's in lbs? Also a suggestion- if you watch this video on a phone the whiteboard is kind of hard to read the long question, so it may be helpful to make a slide or something with text to fit the full screen before you show the work-- that way we can pause and practice the question before you explain too. But I will definitely be watching this again once my program starts this month! Thank you!
Allison Renzi Great advice, thank you and I'll keep that in mind for my next Made Easy video :)
But, in the actual Nursing field, I would imagine that many medications come in the "mg/kg" type. But honestly, that isn't a question I can even answer lol. All I know is that most every time, the Physician has already prescribed the proper amount that the patient is supposed to receive. I think the purpose of those types of questions is to really get us to understand how to do conversions properly. There are also many lbs to kg type questions that are given to ensure we know how to tell whether the prescribed medication is within a 'safe range' for the patient. You could find a bunch of those practice questions online I'm sure. Thanks as always for dropping by Allison. Love hearing from you! =)
hi I been watching you since summer 18 when I first started my pre reqs. I'm done and got accepted into nursing school Fall 19 I subscribed to your channel thanks for all you do!!
Tavon Malone That’s so awesome! Congratulations!!!!
Tavon Malone That’s so awesome! Congratulations!!!!