Course Information

This course prepares the Practical Nursing Student to use numerical skills in the administration of nursing care, including the administration of medication and intravenous solutions and other numerical calculations applicable to safe nursing care. This course will provide a review and practice of basic mathematical calculations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, proportions and conversions. Included will be Systems of Measurement with a focus on Metric System and common conversions. The practice of numerical skills and out-of-class assignments will be a major component of the course, with a focus on the importance of consistency in accuracy. Students will be successful in passing this course with a grade of 70% or better.