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  • Exploring Numeracy for Nursing

    Student nurse administering an injectionWelcome to the Numeracy Moodle page for the School of Health and Human Sciences.

    The resources on this page have been designed to address the numeracy requirements for the BSc in Nursing (Adult & Mental Health).


    There is also a resources page containing a reading list and links to some websites that you might find useful in supporting your studies.


    Don't forget, you've also got access to SafeMedicate.com, where you can practise some of these calculations at your own pace and in your own time.

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    • Numeracy Forum
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      Please use this forum for:

      • Posting questions for response from peers or the Numeracy Tutor
      • Discussing numeracy strategies
      • Notifying typos, errors or broken links
      • Suggesting new resources
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Numeracy in Nursing

  • Numeracy in Nursing

    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

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