Numeracy for Nursing Practice

Year 1: Practise Your Drug Calculations

• Year 1: Practise Your Drug Calculations

  These revision resources contain examples of the type of questions tht you can expect in the Numeracy and Medication Dosage Calculations exam for HS541. Accuracy is essential, and it's important to think about your exam technique and to be very aware of the areas that you find most challenging. Remember, these are practise questions only - you may need to go to the other sections to find tutorial resources to help you to develop your skills. Alternatively, get in touch with me if you would like some additional support, either 1:1 or in small groups.
  
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  The questions will cover:
  
  

  • SI Unit Conversion
  • Tablets and Capsules
  • Liquid Medicines
  • Injections
  • Unit, Multiple Unit and Sub Unit Doses
    

  The resources are split into three sections:

  1. In-house resources, developed to help you prepare for University of Essex drug calculation exams.
     
  2. External e-learning resources
     
  3. Printable resources

  Good luck!
  

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    University of Essex Resources
    

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    Unit Conversions - Test Yourself! File

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    Interactive, self-marking question generator.

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    Practise Your Skills Quiz

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    External E-learning Resources
    

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    The drug calculations site at Queen's University Belfast is one of the best interactive random question generators available. However, it's drawback is that in order to generate such a wide range of numbers, they're not always clinically realistic. So - brilliant for developing your numeracy skills, but use with caution and don't become de-sensitised to odd looking doses and quantities.
    

    Their Year 1 curriculum is slightly different from ours; remember, our exam will only focus on SI unit conversions, tablets, liquid medicines and injections. It's a good idea to develop competence in the other areas though - numeracy skills all link together eventually!

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    Queen's University Belfast Conversions URL

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    Queen's University Belfast Basic Drug Calculations URL

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    Queen's University Belfast - Tablets URL

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    Queen's University Belfast Intermediate Drug Calculations URL

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    These questions are more challenging than Year 1 questions.
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    NHS SN@P URL

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    SN@P stands for Standard Numeracy Assessment Process and is the NHS's own e-learning tool for numeracy skills. 

    User account needed - you'll need to set this up yourself; please do come to the office and see me if you want to do this, but are finding it difficult, I'd be happy to help!

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    Nursing Maths Quizzes - Flinders University, Australia URL

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    Quizzes 1 - 4 are relevant for the HS541 exam.

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    SafeMedicate.com URL

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    Printable Resources
    

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    Maths pack: Unit Conversions - University of Leeds File

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    Printable resource pack all about conversions, from the University of Leeds.

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    Maths Pack - University of Nottingham URL

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    Prefer to practise written questions? This paper, from the University of Nottingham, will be useful. You can download it and print it out.

    Don't worry about Section 4 - we don't do intravenous work until Year 2!
    

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    Maths Pack: Nursing Essentials - University of Leeds File

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    More printables, this time from the University of Leeds.