AU - shams, shamseddin AU - khajehali, nasrin AU - baghayee, rahim TI - Comparing pharmacology knowledge and pharmaceutical calculations skill in Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) among nursing students of Oroumiyeh and Khouy. PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - jccnursing JN - jccnursing VO - 6 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://jccnursing.com/article-1-259-en.html 4100 - http://jccnursing.com/article-1-259-en.pdf SO - jccnursing 3 AB  - Introduction : one of the effective education evaluation methods in higher education is evaluating students in the area of knowledge and using specialized courses that one of these courses is pharmacology course. Nowadays, doing pharmaceutical orders is an important part of nursing cares. Awareness of the precautions concerning drugs and using them is counted as one of the increasing factors of nursing cares in drug therapy. The present study had been done with the aim of “determining the amount of pharmaceutical knowledge and pharmaceutical calculations skill in CCU among nursing students of Oroumiyeh and Khouy and comparing them”. Methods : this cross-sectional study had been done on 120 nursing students of Orumiyeh and Khouy through census method in the academic year of 2013. Data collection tool was a questionnaire including three parts: demographic information, pharmacology knowledge and pharmaceutical calculations that had been analyzed after their collection through descriptive statistic and long linear (row effect) test by using SAS 92 software and chi 2 test in SPSS16 software. Results: findings showed that pharmaceutical knowledge in the area of nursing cares among nursing college students of Oroumieh 43.3% and Khouy students 48.3% was good and there was no significant difference. In the area of drug class, the amount of familiarity , Oroumieh nursing students 76.7% and Khoy students 48.3% was good andt there was significant difference (P=0.0). About pharmaceutical calculations, Oroumieh students 48.3% and Kouy students 16.7% was good and there was significant difference (P CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - jccnursing PG - 181 PT - Research YR - 2013