{"id":22240,"date":"2016-10-24T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advitamlearning.co.uk\/product\/online-drug-dosage-calculations-training\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T21:39:08","slug":"online-drug-dosage-calculations-training","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/product\/online-drug-dosage-calculations-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Dosage Calculations Training | Online CPD Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
Drug Dosage Calculations | Level 2 | Online Training Course | CPDUK Accredited | Instant Course Access | Includes Assessment & Certificate | Instant Certificate Download.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Welcome to our online Drug Dosage Calculations training course for front-line healthcare and social care providers. All our online training courses, programmes and qualifications are accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).<\/p>\n Insufficient skills in drug dose calculations increase the risk of medication errors. Even experienced nurses may struggle with drug dose calculations. Learning flexibility and cost considerations make e-learning interesting as an alternative to classroom teaching.<\/p>\n Most nurses and other clinical staff\u00a0will often be called upon to administer or supervise the administration of all types of medicines in different forms and strengths. As part of this drug calculations training course, you will learn how to do this safely and efficiently.<\/p>\n Certificate duration:<\/strong>\u00a02 years<\/p>\n Entry requirements:<\/strong>\u00a0No entry restrictions<\/p>\n Recommended prerequisites:<\/strong>\u00a0N\/A<\/p>\n Assessment type:<\/strong>\u00a0End of course assessment<\/p>\n Assessment pass mark<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 80% needed to pass and gain a CPD certificate<\/p>\n Cost(s) of assessment and certification<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 All costs included in the course price<\/p>\n Awarding\/Accrediting body<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 CPD Certification Service (CPDUK)<\/p>\n This online Drug Dosage Calculations training course should be completed by those who work\u00a0in health and social care services, including:<\/p>\n This Drug Dosage Calculations e-learning course covers the following:<\/p>\n Comprehensive examples and exercises are included at the end of each lesson.<\/p>\n The main aim of this Drug Dosage Calculations e-learning course is to improve the skills of nurses and other healthcare staff so that they know how to calculate drug dosages accurately and avoid drug errors.<\/p>\n During your career, you will often be called upon to administer or supervise the administration of several types of medicines.<\/p>\n As part of this drug dosage calculations course, you will be shown how to do this safely and efficiently. However, the achievement of this aim requires the development of a certain degree of mathematical skill. The required level is not high, but attaining it is necessary to ensure that the safety of patients is not compromised.<\/p>\n On completion of this online Drug Dosage Calculations training online course, the learner will:<\/p>\n Drug calculations involve the\u00a0basic\u00a0arithmetic\u00a0operations to measure and ascertain exact drug\/medication dosages as per prescription, including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In some clinical areas, some drug calculations can also include more advanced operations, such as manipulations of percentages, square roots, exponentiation, and logarithmic functions depending on how the medications or drugs have been prescribed or in line with local guidance or protocols.<\/p>\n Most nurses and other clinical staff\u00a0will often be called upon to administer or supervise the administration of all types of medicines in different forms and strengths. As part of this drug calculations training course, you will learn how to do this safely and efficiently. However, the achievement of this aim requires the development of a certain degree of basic mathematical skills. The required level of basic mathematics is not high, but attaining it is necessary to ensure that the safety of patients is not compromised.<\/p>\n It is important to note that drug calculations appear to be impossibly difficult unless you break them down into small steps. They are vitally important to get right, yet so easy to get wrong. This online drug calculations course will now look at some commonly used drug calculations and the way that mistakes can happen.<\/p>\n This drug calculations training course covers a variety of numeracy based tasks which nurses, midwives and other clinical staff may be required to perform in practice. These include drug calculations and setting drip rates on the controls of intravenous infusion controllers.<\/p>\n Nursing competence in drug calculations has been a cause for concern (Duffin, 2000; Coombes, 2000). Hutton (1998a) suggests that a degree of \u2018de-skilling\u2019 has resulted from the increasing user-friendliness of drug preparations and widespread use of electronic drip counters.<\/p>\n The lack of basic math skills can be a major problem when it comes to nurses administering drugs to patients, often with very serious consequences. Poor drug calculations are still a significant source of drug error. Evidence has shown that many nurses are weak with drug calculations of all sorts. This comprehensive drug calculations course will help to review the major concepts related to drug calculations, help walk you through a few exercises and provide a few exercises you can perform on your own to check your skills. There are many reference books available to review basic math skills if you find that you have difficulty with even the basic conversion exercises.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The main aim of this Drug Dosage Calculations e-learning course is to improve the skills of nurses and other healthcare staff so that they know how to calculate drug dosages accurately and avoid drug errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98701,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"product_cat":[84,32,78],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advitamlearning.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is the course for?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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