Math Skills Answers

Which of the following are proper fractions?

Five out of twenty patients Nurse B is caring for require hourly visits. What fraction of patients does Nurse B need to visit every hour? Choose the most reduced answer.

The prefix meaning one millionth of a gram is deka✔ micromillikilo.

Nurse A needs to give a patient 0.6 g of medication. The medication comes in tablets of 0.2 g. How many tablets must Nurse A get?

How many calories did Patient A eat?

In which situation might a healthcare worker make an estimation?

A patient with insomnia reports staying awake for 34 hours and 45 minutes before finally falling asleep. The nurse writes that the patient was continuously awake for approximately 34✔ 354550 hours.

A nurse does not have a calculator and has to quickly determine how many 19 mg dosages are needed for 31 people. Approximately how many milligrams should the nurse get from the pharmacy?

Which of the following units of measure are used in the metric system?

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There are 10100✔ 1,000 milliliters in one liter.

A patient weighs 70 kg. The medication must be delivered at a dosage of 15 mg per 10 kg of body weight. What is the correct dose of the medication?

What is the temperature of an autoclave set at 250ºF?

A patient at the hospital is 63 inches tall. How many centimeters tall is the patient?

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In a hospital, a doctor would record times on a patient chart using the twelve-hour✔ twenty-four-hour clock.

An elderly patient goes missing at 9:00 in the morning and is not found until 17:30. How many hours was the patient missing?

Which fractions are equivalent to 0.5 ?

There are 10✔ 1001,000 centimeters in one meter.

The doctor has asked that a patient’s medication be reduced by 25%. The patient is currently taking 400 mg of medication per day. How much medication will the patient receive moving forward?