However, the question remains of why Registered Nurses
performed so poorly in (had problems conceptualizing) the
drug percentages and infusion rates calculations? Again we can
only speculate. According to Preston (2004), Registered Nurses
tend to become complacent in the type of calculations they need
to do daily in their work, with the result that they flounderwhen
they are put in a different context and have to perform
unfamiliar calculations. Like anything else, what is not used is
lost. This was shown plainly by a study by Adam and Duffield
(1991), who found that training increased nursing students’
drug calculation ability, but that this ability diminished over
time if students did not continue to practise. The majority of the
However, the question remains of why Registered Nurses
performed so poorly in (had problems conceptualizing) the
drug percentages and infusion rates calculations? Again we can
only speculate. According to Preston (2004), Registered Nurses
tend to become complacent in the type of calculations they need
to do daily in their work, with the result that they flounderwhen
they are put in a different context and have to perform
unfamiliar calculations. Like anything else, what is not used is
lost. This was shown plainly by a study by Adam and Duffield
(1991), who found that training increased nursing students’
drug calculation ability, but that this ability diminished over
time if students did not continue to practise. The majority of the
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