Essential Calculation Skills for Nurses, Midwives and Healthcare Practitioners
Sue Jordan Senior lecturer, School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea
Numeracy tests are unpopular with some applicants to nursing courses and nursing students, but have come to be regarded as a ‘necessary evil’. After all, some 60,000 medication errors were reported to the National Patient Safety Agency in 2005/06.
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doi: 10.7748/ns2009.06.23.41.30.b920
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