2CreditsThis course is designed to teach how to determine proper dosage, administration, and monitoring of medications with an emphasis for safety, precision, and attention to important physiologic factors. The student will learn the importance of integrating patient education about medications into the treatment plan, as well as description of the nursing process and its relationship to medication delivery to the adult and older adult populations. Math concepts include the various systems of measurements used in nursing and conversion between systems, common abbreviations, calculation of drug dosages and specific drug formulas.