ALH 111 - Dosages & Calculations: Websites

Listed below are some helpful calculation websites:

• Dosage Calculations: NCLEX-RN - Perform calculations needed for medication administration. Use clinical decision making/critical thinking when calculating dosages
• Dosage Help - This website provides a dosage calculations tutorial, complete with explanations and examples, to help nursing students prepare for a medication exam.
• Master Med Math for Nurses - An outline and mind map to help navigate math questions.

Practice tests with with explanations and answers:

• Calculating Safe Medication Dose Ranges: Learning Practice Activities - There are helpful links about 1/2 way down page listed under "Teaching Materials". Click on the first link for a tutorial. Quiz for students is the 3rd link - answers are in the next link.
• Dosage Calculations Liquid Oral Medications Quiz - This dosage and calculation quiz is to help you solve drug calculation for drugs that are prepared in the liquid form.
• Drug Dosage Calculations NCLEX Practice Questions (100+ Items) - Practice dosage calculation problems to measure your competence in nursing math.

Other Helpful Websites:

• Nursing Students Quizzes & Sample Tests -  Interactive quizzes and sample tests in many areas for nursing students and current nurses. At the bottom of the page, there are dosage and calculation videos.
• Medication Math for the Nursing Student - Provides a brief introduction to Dimensional Analysis.

The IBM Micromedex database has the following drug calculators available:

• Dosing Tools
• Measurement Calculators