Rounding for Safety
Round 3.764 to the nearest hundredth.
What is 3.76?
A patient completes 16 of 20 treatments. What percent is completed?
What is 80%
Solve: 4/8 = x/16
What is 8?
What scale is primarily used in U.S. daily life?
What is Fahrenheit?
This number is represented by the middle number of a set group of numbers.
What is the median?
Round 8.25 to the nearest whole number.
What is 8?
A decimal of 1.5 is the same as this percentage.
What is 150%
If 3 tablets treat 90 pounds, how many tablets would treat 180 pounds?
What is 6 tablets?
What scale is used worldwide in healthcare?
What is Celsius?
A number appearing more frequently in a group of numbers represents the groups'?
What is mode?
Round 5.468 to the nearest tenth.
What is 5.5?
A clinic's vaccination rate increases from 70% to 85%, what is the increase in percentage points?
What is 15%
Why must cross multiplication be done carefully in dosage calcuation?
What is to maintain the correct ratio relationships?
Convert 0°C to Fahrenheit.
What is 32°F?
This type of chart shows trends, such as temperatures, over time.
What is a line graph?
Why is rounding important when preparing injectable medication?
What is because small changes affect dosage accuracy?
A clinic sees 80 patients. 25% of those patients need follow up care. How many patients will need to be seen?
What is 20?
Set up a proportion comparing 5 nurses to 20 patients.
What is 5:20 or 1:4?
This approximate Celsius temperature is equivalent to 98.6°F
What is 37.0°C?
These computer based programs are used in healthcare to organize numeric data for calculations.
What are spreadsheets?
A dosage written as .2 mg is misread as 2 mg. By how many times is the dose increased?
What is 10 times?
Explain why 50% improvement does not mean 50 patients improved without knowing the total/
What is because percent represents a portion of the whole.
If the order is for a 120-lb patient, but the patient weighs 180-lbs, what must change mathematically?
What is the proportion must be adjusted?
Why could incorrect temperature conversion affect a medical diagnosis?
What is because fever thresholds may be misinterpreted?
The ability to analyze and interpret this type of patient data is important to clinical decision making.
What are patterns?