Pediatric Dosage Calculations | Dosage Calculations Practice Problems
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- Pediatric Dosage Calculations | Dosage Calculations Practice Problems
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In this video, you'll learn how to do pediatric dosage calculations for nursing school.
We'll walk you through a simple step-by-step process to get pediatric weight based dosage calculations right every single time on your nursing school exams.
So don't worry friend, you don't need to figure dose calc out alone anymore for nursing school. We're here to walk you through it.
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I was super confused as to how questions 2 and 3 were in the safe dose range but then I realized that the orders for both patients fell within the low and high ranges! Great video as always, thank you!
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Same here
Girl how did you know I needed this right now 😳😳 thank you!!
Literally just had class on this too 👀
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Hello dearest thank you for all you do. You’re doing an amazing things in everything you do nursing teaching. I remember watching you when I took LPN in 2020 .Mow I’m in the BSN program watching your dosage calculations for pediatric ❤️as I’m get ready for summer quarter. Thank you
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I finally understand pediatric dosage! Thanks
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I finally understand how to do these types of questions thank you so much
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Hey! love your videos,
please can you do a video on 'displacement volume' - To explain what that is, how to calculate it too.
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question, for #2, can you explain how the doses were within safe range? thank you
Ashley T. sure!! So we need to figure out if the dose, 4mg BID is safe for the patient. We solved for the highest dose the patient could receive and the lowest effective dose the patient could receive. Once we had those two numbers we needed to be sure that the dose that the patient was on was in between the low and the high, and it was so that dose is safe for that patient. I hope that helped to clarify it for you, friend! If you have any other questions, we are always available. :)
Question 3: How come you didn't times the 85mg across the top? I got the answer wrong because I included 85mg so would like to understand why it isn't part of the calculation. Thank you.
Great question, Jay Morgan! With question #3 the goal is figuring out is 86mg is within the safe dose range (10-15mg/kg/day), so we wouldn't be including the 86 in a calculation, instead, just making sure it falls within the safe range. I hope that helps to clarify it for you, friend! Thank you for being here. Have a fantastic day 😊
@@NursingSOS Thank you for responding. I understand now.
Hello, I have a question that’s asking what is the safe dosage range for the child that weighs 15kg and children dosage is 6.7- 13.3 mg/kg q8h? Do I still calculate per day?
Great question, ANAIS4114! 😊 So you will want to make sure that if you calculate the safe dosage per day you take into account the dosing frequency to make sure you convert that to per day as well, instead of every 8 hours. If you have matching units every 8 hours then it would be easiest to use that rather than converting it all to per day as long as your units align with what the question is asking for. I hope that helps to clarify it for you!
I still do not understand why the question 2 is in the safe range if the order was 4mg BID....help?
question for #2. Could you just find the low & high by figuring out the wt in kg (10lb/2.2=4.54= 4.5kg) and then multiplying the 4.5kg by the high & low?
4.5kg x 1.5mg/kg = 6.75/2=3.375 = 3.4mg
4.5kg x 2.5mg/kg= 11.25/2 = 5.62=5.6mg
Amie Krake, yes, that is what we walk through in the dimensional analysis we set up. :) We always recommend doing dimensional analysis for every problem to be sure you are doing it correctly each time, even if it is a somewhat simple calculation. I hope that helps to clarify it for you. Have a fantastic day! :)
Yea but are the child is safe at the low dose not the high, right? It’s determined by her weight, right? High dose isn’t safe, right because it’s more than how much she weighs, right?
Hi, how about if the given is this? order 600mg/75ml. child weight 16.4kg. a safe dosage is 100-150mg/kg/day. how to solve this? Thanks
Jeric Gamata, you would set this one up the same way. So start with what was ordered, what you need at the end, and then solve with the conversions. If you need any further help with this specific problem you can email us your work at hello@nursingsos.com and we would be more than happy to help you! :) Thank you so much for being here! Have a fantastic day!
how do you know where to round to?
@user-kl1kl9er3r, the question will specifically tell you in the instructions and if not then rounding to the tenths place is the standard.
So if its asking mg/day, you dont have to multiply by the qh but if its asking for mg/dose, you divide by the hours
@rosslontoc6334, yes depending on what you are given in the order, as long as the units match that works!
Hey.For the question with Q6 hrs. I realized you never used it. Why didn't you divide it by 24 hrs to determine how much the patient doses the patient should get a day? Also, what do you compare to see if the doses are within the normal range.
Shadae Witter, great question. So what we are solving for is the mg per dose. Since the order is in mg/kg/dose that unit matches so we don't need to do any further conversions. If the order was in mg/kg/DAY then you would have to do another conversion to get to the mg/dose. I hope that helps to clarify it for you!
Question #2: what happened to the 4mg?
Bisayangchinita, We are solving in problem 2 to see if the dose is safe, so we would go by the 1.5- 2.5mg/kg/day, and then solve for the safe dose range and make sure the 4mg BID would fall within that safe dose range. So we solved to get our low end of a safe dose would be 3.4mg/dose and the high end would be 5.68mg/dose, so 4mg/dose falls right in there. I hope that helped to clarify it for you!
@@NursingSOS So when a question asks if it’s “safe dose range” we are to ignore the mg that was ordered to make sure the safe dose range is within the ordered amount. Is that correct?
How come for question #2 you divide your answers by 2 because of BID, but for question #3 you didn’t divide by 4 because of the Q6H?
I failed my Peds calc exam because I didn’t know when to divide and when not to divide
Taujah Wright, great question! In problem number 2 the question gives us a safe dose range per DAY, and question 3 gives us a safe dose range per dose. So depending on if the question provides you with a per dose or per day dosing you will have to solve based on that. I hope that helps to clarify it for you!
in problem 2, why do you round for the low dosage, but not the high?
Great question! If the problem was asking for a specific range then we would have to be more specific with following rounding rules, but since we are trying to solve to figure out of the dose falls within a safe range we know we don't have to continue rounding because we can see the ordered dose is well within that range. We will also be more clear with our rounding guidelines going forward. Thanks so much for being here, De'ja Griffin!
@@NursingSOS thanks! Is there a way to sign up for the dosage calc boot camp only?
I don’t understand how number 2 is safe if he is to have 4mg bid. Wouldn’t that make it that he is having 8mg/day
Tay Twyman for number 2 the dose is 4mg BID and safe range would be 1.5-2.5 mg/kg/day. So we would check what the safe range would be for his weight (mg/kg/day) for both the low and high, and then make sure our BID ordered dose falls within that range. I hope that helps to clarify it for you!
For #2 why didnt you just keep it as 6.82mg/day and 11.36mg/day then say we are giving 8mg/day and it falls as safe? wouldnt that make more sense?
You could do it that way too, Johnny Diablo! As long as your units match up either way works!
Jimmy Jones, 8 years old Wt: 88 lb
Metronidazole suspension
7.5 mg/kg/day
M.ft. dose = 5 mL
Sig: 5 mL b.i.d. x 10 days.
(a) How many milligrams of metronidazole will the patient receive per dose?
(b) How many milliliters of the prescription should be prepared and dispensed?
(c) If metronidazole is available in 250-mg tablets, how many tablets will be
needed to fill the prescription?
need some help with this
Milo Serquina, if you can email us at hello@nursingsos.com and show us your work, along with the question, we can help you more directly! Thank you!
@@NursingSOS Hi, I got it already. after hours of thinking. thanks
a) 150mg/dose
b) 100mL by whole treatment
c) 12 tablet by whole treatment
Can someone please help me understand how to do this question
Child weighs-18kg
Order:30mg every 8hrs
Dosage:5mg/kg/day two or 3 doses equally divided.
Blessing Osarodion you can always email us (hello@nursingsos.com) showing your work and any questions you have and we can help you get past the challenging part! You've got this!!
*_"Order: 30mg 8/8 h"_*
It's correct.
5mg/kg x 18kg/day x day/24h x 8h/dose = *_"30mg/dose"._*
This part of nursing math is important but extremely annoying I really hate having to do this it's very confusing and many steps.
Lucius Johnson, there are quite a few steps, you are right. Keep practicing, the more you practice the easier it will become and the more confident you will feel in it! You've got this!!!
I'm confused about question 3. Where did you get 2.2 from? And question 2 BID, you divided it by 2. I know BID means twice a day, so why didn't you multiple it instead of dividing it?
hehehe, watching this as a UK nurse using metric is making me laugh, that you have such an overly complex way of doing this...jus use kg, or convert from the start.
That is great that you found a system that works for you, yannie0101! Thank you for being here, your support means the world to us. 😊