I Don't Remember How To Do This - Let Someone Else Do The Math

As patients encounter the end of life, physiological and clinical changes that occur provide many challenges to the clinical care giver. These changes frequently require alterations of therapy, not the least of which is the prescribing different medications to maintain and achieve the comfort we strive to provide. This session will develop the nurse’s skill in calculating the conversions of various opioids to equal potencies and strengths of other drugs of this class. The focus is to master the techniques involved in correctly dosing these narcotics when comparing class to class, dose to dose and route and frequency of administration.