Calculation Lab
Where the math is alive.
The dose and IV-fluid calculations every nurse must master — taught with live four-method solvers, an animated drip chamber, a vasopressor cockpit, and pedagogy that explains every step. Not flash cards. Not a static PDF. A lab.
Pick a lab. Start playing. Walk away fluent.
Each lab pairs the NursingRidge handout with manipulable widgets. Toggle Teach me mode and every step is narrated — why this conversion factor, why this direction, why this rounding.
Dose Calculation Lab
The four methods, side-by-side, computing live. Safe-notation detector. LASA matching. Reconstitution visualizer. Decimal-error theater.
IV Fluid Calculation Lab
Animated drip chamber that actually drips. Vasopressor cockpit with real-time titration. Holliday-Segar with a draggable weight. Reasonableness flagging against the NursingRidge drug DB.
What "Teach me" mode does
Every step explained, not just the answer.
Your students don't just see "1 mL." They see why mcg cancels mcg, why the conversion factor was placed that way, and what would happen if they flipped it. The narration is the product.
- 🧠Why, not what. Each step states the reasoning, not just the math.
- ✂️Unit cancellation visualized. Units strike through on screen as they cancel.
- 🔁Two modes. Teach me for learning. Show me for review.
Live checks. Curated. Owned by you.
The Calc Lab queries RxNorm for real drug-name validation and a curated reasonableness DB you control. Out-of-range doses get flagged. Forbidden routes (vincristine intrathecal, KCl IV push) get blocked with the actual case history.
- 🔎RxNorm autocomplete. Real drug names. No typos.
- 📋Curated dose ranges. Edit one JSON file to add drugs.
- ⛔Forbidden-route blocks. KCl push, IT vincristine — sentinel-event guardrails.
- ↗️Hand-off to the Drug Reference & Checker for the full FDA label.