To assure safe delivery of care, nurses need to demonstrate the ability to compute the data, apply the nursing process, apply safety and error prevention guidelines, integrate appropriate client demographic data, address principles of medication administration, apply critical thinking, and many other foundations associated with nursing practice.

This online course includes the major elements associated with safe nursing practice, as well as the skills needed for accurate dosage calculation. Comprehensive in scope, the course includes nursing foundations such as American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics, ANA Standards of Practice, a critical thinking model for nursing, an error prevention model, client rights, National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) guidelines for dosage calculation, safety guidelines, integration of client demographics, principles of drug and fluid administration, role delineation, and more. The progressive design provides the learner with opportunities to advance from simple mathematical processes to using clinical judgment about the outocmes of computational processes associated with nursing practice.