Section: Numeracy in Nursing | Numeracy for Nursing Practice | Open Essex

  • The table below shows a very wide range of numeracy skills, mapped to specific nursing tasks. You will cover many of these, both in university and on placement, during your first year. Your numeracy assesssment for HS541, at the end of Year 1, will focus only on Medication Dosages and Unit Conversions, as detailed in the NMC's Essential Skills Cluster 33.

    You will see that the same skills - arithmetic, decimal place value and fractions occur repeatedly.

    Taxonomy of nursing tasks and associated numeracy skills