SYBA2110 Drug Calculations Course description

The purpose of the course is to teach the students the knowledge and skills necessary to perform correct drug calculations.

Admission to the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge and skills:

Knowledge: The student

• has knowledge of the key concepts in drug calculations
• has knowledge of the role of drug calculations as part of drug administration and how it is regulated by acts and regulations

Skills: The student

• masters drug calculations in that he/she is capable of:
  • using international standards and unitary systems in drug calculations
  • calculating dosages, concentrations or amounts
  • calculating injection and infusion rates (dr/min and ml/hr)
  • calculating timing of dose distribution over a specified time interval, within a specified time period
  • calculating ordinary doses in ml or drops per time interval (0.125 mg/ml or 0.15 ml/kg/min)
  • calculating prescribed doses in relation to body weight (in kg) or body surface (in m2)
  • is capable of calculating the dilution of drugs in liquid form or the dilution of drugs added to solutions for injection/infusion
  • assessing and controlling their own and other people's calculations

Teaching, supervision and various student-active work forms.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Passed qualifying arithmetic problems (100% correct) in the form of multiple choice questions within a set time before the exam.

If the coursework is not approved after the third attempt, the student will be withdrawn from the exam. The same number of attempts will be given for coursework requirements at later exams.

If more than one academic year has passed between a coursework requirement being approved and the intended exam, the student can be required by the faculty to retake previously approved coursework before taking the exam in the course.

Form of assessment: Supervised individual written exam, 3 hours.

The student has three attempts at the exam. If the student does not pass the exam at the third attempt, he/she can apply for a fourth and final attempt.

The exam is normally held four times in the course of the academic year.

Calculator handed out by the university.

Pass-fail. To pass the exam, the student must submit a faultless exam paper.

One internal examiner.

SKOMP2110, SYBA2110, SYBAS2110 and SPHLEG overlap 100%.