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Health administrators, work throughout the world to provide proper care to individuals when they are unhealthy and prevent disease. Availability and safe medication administration practices are the basic care provided to all the patients. Medications are chemicals that are intended to cure, prevent disease and relieve symptoms, diagnosis of certain illnesses as well as early treatment. They are prescribed and administered to patients with the intention of achieving results that improve a patient's quality of life while minimizing suffering. Nurses have inadequate medication dosage calculation skills and this is a topic of concern. In the clinical setting, nurses are having rights of medication administration to the patients. Although providing medication is a multidisciplinary process, nurses take on almost all the responsibility for administering and controlling the medication used. In this study we found out that out of the total 160 samples, 56.5% of the staff nurses had moderate knowledge [<50%], 31.25% had adequate knowledge [51-75%] and 11.25% had inadequate knowledge [<50%] regarding the medication dosage calculation. The study also indicates that there is no correlation between the medication dosage calculation skills with selected demographic variables of staff nurses.