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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mastering Dosage Calculations: A Step-by-Step Method for Unit Conversions, IV Rates, and Weight-Based Math for Confident Medication Work

Mastering Dosage Calculations: A Step-by-Step Method for Unit Conversions, IV Rates, and Weight-Based Math for Confident Medication Work

Parisian, Korbin
Brakus, Sandra

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN13: 9798186962885
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.77 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
A single misplaced decimal in a weight-based IV order doesn't cause a small mistake. It causes a code.

That's the reality Mastering Dosage Calculations was written to prepare you for: the ninety seconds between a written order and a drawn-up dose, when a nursing student becomes the last line of defense between a decimal point and a patient.

What actually stands between the doctor wrote it and it's safe to give? Usually just a handful of conversions, a formula half remembered from a review session, and a rising sense of panic that has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with never having practiced the skill enough to trust it.

That gap is where calculation errors live, and where real confidence in nursing school, clinicals, and the first year of practice is built or lost. A reader who can't convert pounds to kilograms under pressure, calculate an IV drip rate without a calculator, or verify a pediatric dose against a safe range isn't only risking a wrong exam answer. She's risking the kind of error that keeps a nurse awake at three in the morning for the rest of her career.

This book closes that gap directly, from the first unit conversion to the most demanding critical care titration a bedside clinician will ever calculate, using three transferable methods, dimensional analysis, ratio-proportion, and the formula method, taught side by side until one becomes the default way you approach any calculation.

What's inside

  • Twenty-two chapters moving from foundational arithmetic through oral, parenteral, and IV dosing, insulin, anticoagulants, pediatric and neonatal safety, body surface area, and critical care titration.
  • Fully worked examples with every step of the arithmetic shown, never skipped.
  • An original clinical case in every chapter, grounding the math in a believable scenario instead of an abstract problem.
  • Practice questions in every chapter, including scenarios that hide a completed calculation's error for you to catch, followed by a fully worked answer key.
  • A dedicated chapter on exam and licensure test-taking strategy built specifically around calculation questions.
  • A closing quick-reference chapter plus nine appendices gathering every formula, conversion factor, and safety check into one place.

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