Practice and Innovation, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2012 Jul;12(4):198-203. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.01.004. Epub 2012 Feb 2.
The ability of healthcare professionals to perform basic numeracy and therefore dose calculations competently is without question. Research has primarily focused on nurses, and to a lesser extent doctors, ability to perform this function with findings highlighting poor aptitude. Studies involving pharmacists are few but findings are more positive than other healthcare staff.
To determine first year nursing, midwifery and pharmacy students ability to perform basic numeracy calculations.
All new undergraduate entrants to nursing, midwifery and pharmacy sat a formative numeracy test within the first two weeks of their first year of study.
Test results showed that pharmacy students significantly outperformed midwifery and nursing students on all questions. In turn midwifery students outperformed nurses, although this did not achieve significance. When looking at each cohorts general attitude towards mathematics, pharmacy students were more positive and confident compared to midwifery and nursing students.
Pharmacy students expressed greater levels of enjoyment and confidence in performing mathematics and correspondingly showed the greatest proficiency. In contrast nurse, and to a lesser extent midwifery students showed poor performance and low confidence levels.
医护专业人员具备基本的计算能力并能准确进行剂量计算，这一点毋庸置疑。目前的研究主要集中在护士，以及在较小程度上的医生，他们执行这一功能的能力，研究结果强调了他们较差的能力。涉及药剂师的研究较少，但结果比其他医护人员更积极。
确定护理、助产和药学专业一年级学生的基本计算能力。
所有护理、助产和药学专业的新生在第一学年的头两周内参加了一项形成性的计算能力测试。
测试结果显示，药剂学生在所有问题上的表现明显优于助产和护理学生。反过来，助产学生的表现优于护士，但这并没有达到显著水平。当观察每个学生群体对数学的总体态度时，药剂学生比助产和护理学生更积极、更自信。
药剂学生在进行数学运算时表现出更高的享受和自信水平，相应地表现出更高的熟练程度。相比之下，护士，以及在较小程度上的助产学生表现出较差的表现和较低的信心水平。
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