Keywords
dose calculation in nursing
titrimetric errors in nursing
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Abstract
This work aims at showing the impact of mathematics in nursing because mathematics has been removed from the curriculum since the last reforms, while it is important for nursing and research in nursing. This work will deal with some mathematics bases used in nursing and will show some observations on the situation after a test given to both students in last year of nursing and nurse practitioners focusing on experience. From these observations, our study has shown that it is important that the discipline be part of the curriculum, because experienced practitioners manage to use mathematics well thanks to their exprience while the beginners have many problems.
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