Pass Your Dosage Calc Exam | Every Conversion You Need to Know!

There are 26 Doscal conversions standing between you and passing your Doscalc exam. So in this video today we're walking through all of the must know doscal conversions to make sure that you are ready to pass. Plus, I've got a quiz for you at the end so that you can test yourself. So hit that subscribe button and click the notification bell and let's dive in. Now here's the problem. Nursing schools require that you pass the dose calc exam in order to stay in the program. But. But they won't usually tell you which conversions you need to know for it. And they don't give those conversions to you during the test. So if you don't have them memorized ahead of time, you literally cannot solve your do calc problems, which is a huge problem. Right? They can also throw totally random questions at you, like grains. If there is one conversion that I see trip up more nursing students than any other conversion, it's grains. Most nursing students completely forget that grains even exist. And then they see it on their nursing school exam and they totally freeze up. So when we get to that one, pay close attention, my friend. You've got to know that one. And here's a quick study tip that will help you memorize these faster. You don't want to memorize conversions as a random list. So we want to pair them together like kilograms and pounds, those always go together. Or like milligrams and micrograms, those always go together. Or milligrams and grams, those can go together. So. So when you study them in those pairs, your brain can create those connections so that every time you see one, you're going to be thinking automatically about the other one, and then they'll be easier to remember. So what we're going to do is I'm going to walk you through the dose calc conversions that you've got to have memorized before you take your dose calc exam. Our students rave about our dose calc videos. It's so, so helpful. So I hope that this video is super helpful for you. So watch this video, put it on repeat, and then make sure that you watch it again before you take your exam just to make sure that you don't forget any of these, because you have to know all of these for your exam to pass. So Here we go. 1000 micrograms. Now, anytime you see mcg. All right, MCG micrograms. 1,000 micrograms is 1 milligram. All right, MCG is micrograms, milligrams is MG. So 1 milligram is 1,000 micrograms. So 1 milligram is 1000 micrograms. I don't want you to get confused about those on your exam when you see those units. MCG is micrograms. All right, so there's 1,000 micrograms in one milligram. Now let's do grams. One gram. So GM or G can be gram. One gram is 1,000 milligrams. All right. One gram is 1,000mg. So one gram, one GM or G, it could be written either way, so I don't want that to confuse you. One gram is 1,000 milligrams. Now, for liters, how many milliliters are in a literature? One liter is equal to 1,000 milliliters. All right. One liter is equal to 1000 milliliters. All right. So one liter, 1000 milliliters. Now, this one is interesting. This is CCS. You don't see this very often. CC's we don't really use because they can kind of look like zeros if they're written out. So that was kind of phased out, but you might still see it on your exams. So we're going to include it here. So 1 ML is equal to 1 cc or 1 cc is equal to 1 mil. So 1 ML, 1 cc, it's the same thing. We just kind of have phased out the CC unit and just made it milliliters. So you might still see it, though, sometimes. But we do include it here just in case. So 1cc is equal to 1ml. Now let's do teaspoons. How many milliliters are in one teaspoon? In one teaspoon, there is five milliliters. All right. One teaspoon is equal to five milliliters. Now, these can be tricky. Some of these different kind of milliliter teaspoon tablespoon ounce conversions can be kind of tricky. So these are important to know for your exam. So 1 teaspoon is equal to 5 milliliters. Okay, so there's 5 milliliters in 1 teaspoon. All right. 5 mils in 1 teaspoon. All right, now let's do tablespoons. How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon? Well, one tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. Right. One tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. So tablespoon teaspoon. That's kind of a tongue twister. So three teaspoons are in one tablespoon. Three teaspoons in one tablespoon. Right. Three and one. Now, let's do tablespoons to milliliters. So how many milliliters are in one tablespoon? So there's 15 milliliters in one tablespoon. Right? 15 milliliters in one tablespoon dot so one tablespoon is equal to 15 milliliters. All right, now, ounces and milliliters, how many milliliters are in one ounce? One ounce is equal to 30 milliliters. One ounce is equal to 30 milliliers. There are 30 milliliters in one ounce. 30 mils in one ounce. All right, an ounce is oz. You'll see that written out, abbreviated there. 30 milliliters in one ounce. Now, next up, we've got ounces and tablespoons. So how many tablespoons are in one ounce? There are two tablespoons in one ounce. So in one ounce, that's equal to two tablespoons. All right, so two tablespoons is equal to one ounce. Two tablespoons, one ounce. And now this one's tricky. I see a lot of nursing students actually don't know this one and can possibly mess it up on your exams. It may or may not be on your exam, but we're going to include it here anyway, just in case. But I do find that a lot of nursing students don't know this, so we're going to go through it is cups and ounces. So how many ounces are in a cup? Do you know this one? How many ounces are in a cup? Eight ounces. There are eight ounces in one cup. All right, so eight ounces is equal to one cup. Eight ounces, one cup. All right. Definitely remember that one. It can be kind of tricky because it's not one that we often use, so it's a good one to remember. Now, this one, super important, kilograms and grams. So when you think kilograms, grams, that's weight. So kilograms and grams, there are how many grams in one kilogram, right? 1,000 grams. One kilogram. Okay, one kilogram is equal to 1,000 grams. 1,000 grams is equal to one kilogram. 1,000 grams. 1 kilogram. Got that one. Now. Oh, my goodness. If there was any dose, calc conversion to know for pediatrics or ICU questions, critical care questions, you've got to know weight. This one is huge. These you really want to be careful with on your exam because they are so tricky. They will try to trip you up. That is kilograms, two pounds or pounds to kilograms. So this one you absolutely have to know. So how many pounds are in one kilogram? There are 2.2 pounds in one kilogram. All right, remember your magic number 2.2. There are 2.2 pounds in 1 kilogram. Okay, 2.2 pounds. 1 kilogram. 2.2 pounds, 1. 1 kilogram. I know I'm repeating myself a lot here because these are so important. You've got to know all these conversions for your dose cock exam, or you could get them wrong. So 2.2 pounds is equal to 1 kg, or 1 kg is equal to 2.2 pounds. So anytime a dose question is asking you to convert pounds to kilograms or kilograms to pounds, and that is the conversion that you will use. 1 kg is equal to 2.2 pounds. Now, let's talk about grains. This one is a tricky one, and most nursing schools are starting to phase this out because it's not really used anymore. But I still talk to a lot of nursing students whose program still uses it, so we're going to include it here just in case you need to know it for your particular nursing program. So here's why. Grains are super tricky for for most medications, one grain equals 60 milligrams. But for aspirin, Tylenol, which is acetaminophen, and iron, it's 65 milligrams per grain. I know, it's frustrating. Here's your strategy, though. If the problem doesn't tell you which conversion to use, go with 60. But if it mentions aspirin, acetaminophen, or iron, think 65. So one grain and is 65 milligrams. And now let's walk through a quick quiz so you can test yourself. This will be super fun, and I'm going to choose them kind of randomly, and then you can see if you get the answer correct. All right, are you ready? One liter is equal to how many milliliters? I'll give you a couple seconds to think about it. One liter is equal to how many milliliters. How many milliliters are in one liter? There are 1,000 milliliters in one liter. So there's 1,000 milliliters in 1 liter. 1,000 milliliters is equal to 1 liter. That's a very important one, especially when you're doing IV calculations. Let's do this one. How many milliliters are in one ounce? How many milliliters are in 1 ounce? There are 30 milliliters in one ounce, 30 milliliters in one ounce. So 1 ounce equal to 30 milliliters. All right, what's next? Let's try another tricky one. How many ounces are in one cup. How many ounces are in one cup? Give you a minute to think about it. There are eight ounces in one cup. So in one cup, that's equal to eight ounces. All right, you want to remember that. I know that one. We just don't use it very much, so it can be kind of hard to remember. So one cup is equal to eight ounces. All right, let's do. Ooh, this is a good one. How many milliliters are in 1 teaspoon? How many milliliters are in one teaspoon? What's your guess? How many milliliters in one teaspoon? There are five milliliters in one teaspoon. There's five. Five milliliters. One teaspoon. Awesome job, my friend. Let's do. Ooh, let's do this one. How many micrograms are in 1 milligram? How many micrograms are in 1 milligrams? There are 1,000 micrograms in 1 milligram. There's 1,000 micrograms in one milligram. Right? That's a really good one. Now let's do. Ooh, this is a golden one. Gotta know this one. How many pounds are in a kilogram? How many pounds are in 1 kg? All right. What is the kilograms to pounds conversion? This is so important for your pediatrics. Like we said, critical care. Anything that's weight based, you've got got to know this one. This one's so tricky. Of all the things I think grains and weight, those are some of the hardest dose cal questions to get right on your exam. So this one is a must. Must know how many pounds are in 1 kg. 1 kg is equal to 2.2 pounds. Did you get it right? Remember 2.2. Is that magic number 2.2 pounds in 1 kg. And I'll give you a tip. Anytime I do weight based calculations, I like to convert the weight first and then do the calculation. So if it's asking for kilograms at the end or asking for pounds at the end or whatever, I like to do that weight calculation first and then do the rest of the problem before I do anything else. Because that getting the weight out of the way solves a lot of problems during the dose calculated question, like during solving the problem. And if you want a step by step breakdown of how I do weight based calculations, definitely check out this video here. We'll pop it up here on the side for you. Check that video out where I walk through weight based calculations. So important. All right. Next up, let's do ounces and tablespoons. One ounce is equal to how many tablespoons how many tablespoons are in one ounce? There are two tablespoons in one ounce. Two tablespoons in one ounce. Awesome job my friend. And honestly, now that you know all of these conversions, the next thing that you're going to need to know is how to actually use them to solve your dose Calc problems. Especially IV calculations. Because those show up and everywhere on your nursing school exams, my friend. So be sure to check out this video here where I'm going to walk you through exactly how to solve IV flow rate dose calc questions step by step with a whole bunch of practice problems. 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