✔️ Identify reasons why nurses need to maintain competency in performing selected calculations, even though technology and pharmacy support relieves nurses of performing calculations in many situations.
✔️ Describe selected basic concepts, facts, and principles of algebra and mathematics.
✔️ Perform calculations correctly using: Formula (where applicable) and Ratio and proportion.
✔️ Identify advantages and disadvantages of the different calculation methods: Formula (where applicable) and Ratio and proportion.
✔️ Convert correctly between selected units of measure: Within the metric system, Between United States customary measures and the metric system, Between selected cooking measures and the metric system, Between Celsius (centigrade) and Fahrenheit temperature scales.
✔️ Calculate drug dosages correctly, finding correct dosages and correct amounts to administer given prescriber orders, selected patient parameters, and concentrations and amounts on hand.
