Medicines management is a core nursing skill. This review gives an introduction to and taster of our newly launched online Nursing Times Learning unit on drug calculations. Subscribe today for ...

Drug calculations is a very hard course for many nursing students. A specially made computer game, developed in Norway, is set to help them pass a vitally important exam. Drug calculations is a very ...

Bulk drug calculations for different types of active moieties and drugs require different calculations and labeling. Performing calculations for the formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms and ...

Loss of estrogen receptor in recurrent breast cancer is associated with poor response to endocrine therapy. The BSA-based method of dose calculation was adopted without adequate investigation of its ...

Winners have emerged from this year’s National Drug Dosage Calculation Competition for Nurses (NDDCCN). The competition, according to organisers, is geared towards improving best practice in ...

It would be naïve to expect to never have to do drug calculations as a student nurse, however as soon as I see the numbers jumbled up on a page in a mock exam, I suddenly feel as though the world is ...

Body surface area-dosing does not account for the complex processes of cytotoxic drug elimination. This leads to an unpredictable variation in effect. Overdosing is easily recognised but it is ...

Implementing a strategy that focuses on dose rounding for chemotherapies can have a 3-fold impact of decreasing drug costs, minimizing drug waste, and improving treatment efficiency. This strategy and ...