Resources

I thought it would be helpful to put together a Maths for Nurses resources page where I could bring together all the best material that I have found to help you to pass your drug calculations test.

Drug Calculations Help

'Maths For Nurses' Book

This book looks at both your basic numeracy skills, and the application of those skills to nursing contexts. It contains easy to follow, step-by-step methods, lots of examples of applying the skills into real problems, hundreds of practice questions, eight practice tests and gives special bonus access to fully worked solutions to every question.

Middlesex University

Middlesex University have made available some YouTube videos on some of the topics that come up most often, in addition to helpsheets and a short workbook that you can download to practice with.

Queen's University, Belfast

On the website of Queen's University there are some more practice questions on basic numeracy and drug calculation skills. You will also find a few sample papers and an 8-page free download called the 'Essential Guide to Numeracy' that briefly outlines some fundamental numeracy skills.

'Pass Your Drug Calculations Test with Ease' Course

This course will turbo-charge your preparation, with dozens of video tutorials outlining every key skill that you will need, and demonstrating the processes in an easy-to-digest manner, in the context of real life problems. Accompanying each video is a cheat sheet and a practice exercise, and during the course you get full support for any help that you need.

Baxter Healthcare

Baxter Healthcare have put together a PDF guide called 'Good Practice for Drug Calculations' that runs through some of the key methods with worked examples. The guide is available as a free download.

Flinders University

On the Flinders University website there are a series of quizzes that you can use to practice your drug calculations skills.

Practice Tests

Maths for Nurses

I have created three practice tests that I would like to give you free of charge. The first of these is a basic numeracy test and the other two focus particularly on drug calculations. To get these tests (plus a few other bits that I think you might find interesting), just enter your name and email address below.

Queen's University, Belfast

Queen's University have made available sample papers for the tests that they set at the end of each of the three years of their nursing course. For the second and third years, these tests are different for adult and child nursing contexts.

Middlesex University

On the Middlesex University website, there are five sets of practice questions each for adult and child drug calculation tests.

Birmingham City University

Birminigham City University have issued practice questions for the test that you are given before starting your nursing course.

General Numeracy Resources

BBC Bitesize

BBC Bitesize is designed for GCSE revision, but it provides a great summary of how to do lots of different Maths topics. Although it isn't specifically maths for nurses resources, it is a good place to look if you are struggling with any general areas of numeracy. 

TES

TES is the website of the Times Educational Supplement. It contains hundreds of thousands of resources created by teachers, for teachers. If there is a specific numeracy topic you are looking for help on, the chances are high that you will find something on TES.

Coaching

Maths for Nurses

At Maths for Nurses, we offer a coaching service. If you can't find what you need in any of these resources, and want some extra one-on-one help, then why not give coaching a try?