Start your online dosage calculation course
with Rhonda Lawes, PhD, RN from ORU
Accurately calculating medication doses is absolutely vital for patient safety and an important nursing task. Handling the formulas and conversions seems daunting for many nursing students before they gain routine.
This course covers the suitable dosages of various types of medication for children and adults in different medical scenarios. You will learn how drugs are absorbed in different ways, such as in tablets, liquids, and buccal and sublingual medications. Experienced educator Rhonda Lawes, PhD, RN, will walk you through converting SI units, understanding drug labels, and mastering dimensional analysis—one of the most crucial methods for solving calculation problems. Through step-by-step setups, realistic case studies, and interactive Qbank-based and fill-in-the-blank practice questions, you’ll learn to cancel units with confidence and apply these calculations to real-world clinical situations.
An adaptive learning algorithm, downloadable Cheat Sheets, and a NCLEX-style Qbank are part of the learning platform, boosting retention and understanding. By the end of this course, you will have gained good practice in dosage calculation and feel confident to solve practice problems on exams, as well as to safely navigate medication administration in clinical practice.
