how do nurses use mathematics in their job?
2007-10-13 15:54:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Health Care
I think your main question here is how math is used in nursing. You will find math used in everything you do in nursing. From taking a simple pulse, you feel for 15 seconds then multiply by 4 to get heart rate/per/minute. You will take blood pressure and subtract the numbers to get the differential which is pulse pressure. You will measure medication based on the persons weight. You have to convert pounds to Kg because medication is dosed in mg/Kg. You will read ekg strips and have to count the little squares and calculate time between heart waves for complex evaluations. Those are just a few examples, but you will use math all day, every day.
2007-10-13 16:23:16 · answer #1 · answered by cowboy in scrubs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As cowboy said, there is nothing a nurse does, that does not require some level of math. Even down to calculating how much coffee will fit in a cup before you add the cream and sweetner at 2 am, can be a mathmatical calculation. As far as who is a wonderful nurse... anyone who would work in the job of nursing is wonderful. They are almost all truely selfless, and really care for the welfare of the patients.
2007-10-14 04:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by US_DR_JD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The previous people have answered the math question and i agree.
Wonderful nurse? I would like to think that anyone that has taken up the nursing profession, did so to want to help others and truly cares about the people they serve. But, sad to say, I have worked with some that are there for the almighty paycheck
2007-10-14 07:46:30 · answer #3 · answered by Jayme M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Veteran's Administration Hospital nurses are wonderful! With a few exceptions, they are the most hard working, most underpaid health care professionals there are. They do so much for so many. Not being a nurse, I don't know how they use math in their jobs. Good Luck & Blessings
2007-10-13 23:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by Tail Stinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Math is in dosage calculations, IV drip rates, percentages for weight loss or gain, etc.
But I will be honest - these days technology makes you lazy. Machines do just about all the more complex calculations - automated IV pumps that you program to deliver the dosage, the blood pressure machines that take the pulse for you, computer programs that calculate other things like heparin infusion rates or BMIs, etc.
2007-10-14 07:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Take A Test! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You?
and calculators
2007-10-13 23:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by SeaWaveGreg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋