Pediatric Medication Calculations

Nurses providing medication to infants, children and youth are often required to calculate the safe doses by weight. There are several methods nurses can use to calculate pediatric medication doses and this video will review a few of the more common ones.

This video demonstrates four ways you can ensure your pediatric medication dose is correct. Review formulas that consider age, weight, BSA and the nomogram. These strategies can be used to ensure the dose you are giving is correct or to calculate a medication dose for youth when no parameters exist in the drug inserts.

While these methods may not be used very much anymore, it is useful to have an understanding of these formulas in case a weight-based dose is not available on your drug monograph.

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thankyou so much! incoming nursing student here more pls!! 💗

[tehreemisshaq]

You have an amazing teaching method ...thank you mam

[amalatom]

Mam that means we need to split the dose ..and give in a day

[blackrose]

So i can use any method for any drug if i know the average adult dose ??
Second question: why can’t i use the 10-15 mg/kg for tylenol for example?
Third question: do these methods measure the single dose that should be given? Or the maximum single dose ? Or the maximum daily dose?

[sharmishtadhavalikar]

Mam this was very helpfull thank you so much mam

[luminaselvi]

Mam the mg we got is for kg or the total dose

[kaylasmith]

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[bhagyashreek]

How we can decide average adult dose??

[sabitasahoo]

Is the average adult dose was given in medicine