A Quick Look at Dimensional Analysis for Medication Calculations

March 13, 2023 by Cathy J. Thompson

Dimensional Analysis (DA) is commonly used in science and engineering and it's a problem-solving method that works well to teach medication calculation to nursing students (Cookson, 2013; Greenfield et al., 2006; Toney-Butler & Wilcox, 2019). Dimensional analysis is also called the factor-label method or unit-factor method. The factors that are

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