Liquid Medicines and Injections
Completion requirements
This short tutorial will take you through the basic formula and rules for setting up drug calculations involving liquids medicines and injections. If you have understood the fundamental principles of the NHS1 formula, you should find this topic relatively straightforward.
If solving the problems without a calculator is difficult, then you should work through the resources in Topic 2 - Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.
6. Test Yourself
The following examples from Queen's University Belfast will help you to practise your NHS skills. The screencast is an excellent step-by-step demonstration of the written method of calculation. If your device does not display the entire screen, then clicking on this link will open the resource in a new window.