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Tackling number problems
Develop your maths skills with this step-by-step method to facing number challenges at work. Using the acronym ‘PEACE’, learn how to plan, estimate, approach, calculate and evaluate your answer.
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Complications and treatments of diabetes
Increase your awareness of the complications people may experience due to having diabetes. Here you will learn more about the symptoms of acute and long-term complications and the potential treatment options.
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Trauma-informed care
Understand more about the fundamental principles for trauma-informed approaches in the UK. Listen to podcasts which explain more how a trauma-informed approach can help us understand and address inequalities and promote mental wellbeing.
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Estimation
Learn the skills needed to estimate the answer to a number problem before you calculate it. This resource looks at how to spot mistakes with calculating doses and why simplifying the numbers will help you to reach the correct answer.
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Dosage for solid medicines
Learn more about how to calculate the required dosage of tablets to give to a patient, using the ‘PEACE’ problem-solving method. This resource looks at the different ways you might use mental arithmetic to work out and check your answer.
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Metric units
When administrating medication to patients in small doses, prescriptions are commonly written in grams and milligrams. Use this resource to build your knowledge and confidence when it comes to converting metric units accurately.
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Flow rate and IV drugs
Increase your knowledge when it comes to calculations relating to giving fluid medicines over a period of time (continuous infusions), for example, drugs provided intravenously through an IV line.
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What can you do?
One in four people will have a mental health problem in their life. The RCN is committed to achieving equal care for mental health.
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Dosage for liquid medicines
Find out more about how to calculate the right amount of liquid medicine to give a patient. Use practice examples to help you with your approach and explore the two main ways of calculating dosage, using mental arithmetic or a formula.
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Older people: information and guidance
Caring for older people represents the largest area of adult nursing in the UK. Visit this page to find information and guidance on key issues related to the care of older people, including mental health support.
