Level -> RE: Watching what you say (6/11/2006 1:13:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: feastie I once worked for a large hospital in the Education Department. Nurses who administer medications must take a test before being allowed to give meds in this hospital and they must take the test annually. Passing score for this test is 100%. If they do not answer all the questions correctly, they are remediated on the ones they missed until the Educator is convinced they understand why their answer was incorrect and why the correct answer is correct. *adds that to my domly dominant handbook for future reference* [:-] The test is open book. They are allowed to use books, Medex, (an online drug reference), they are allowed to use their study guide. They are allowed to use a calculator. The reason for this is that it is much more important to know that these people know how to find the answer they need, rather than relying on their memory and perhaps making a medication error which could prove fatal for the patient. How does this relate to this post? Even if you are not the best speller or suck at grammar, resources are available to you to help you. I personally suck at math. Really, hugely suck at math. But, if I have to help with homework or use a formula I can't remember, I will go search it out, rather than guessing. I may not be a mathmetician, but I can find out how to do what I need to do. I may not get the correct answer even then, but I will have put forth the effort. Math and I don't get along very well either. You know what I use to do math at home with? A calculator I bought at the checkout at Wal-Mart in 1986 for $1.00. I know that isn't terribly entertaining, but I do so love my calculator, but figured it wasn't worth starting a whole thread over LOL.
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