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Calculating Oral Medications
Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
  • Calculate doses by body weight.
  • Calculate doses by body surface area.
  • Do multistep conversion problems.
  • Calculate doses for oral medications in liquid form.
  • Calculate doses for oral medications in tablet, capsule, and caplet form.
  • Calculate doses for oral medications from the information given on drug labels.



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