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Peer Review

A Guide to Numeracy in Nursing Simple Book Publishing

Reviewed:

Feb 23, 2025 by Health Sciences
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 5.0 stars
Content Quality: 5.0 stars
Effectiveness: 5.0 stars
Ease of Use: 5.0 stars
Overview:

A Guide to Numeracy in Nursing is a workbook for learning how to use and understand numbers in a nursing context. Chapters include subjects of basic math skills, unit conversions, medication math, interpreting lab values, and introductory statistics. Within each chapter, there is a main lesson followed by sample exercises and sets of practice questions.  

Type of Material:

Open (Access) Textbook

Recommended Uses:

  • This open textbook could be used by individuals in nursing school for homework or classwork.
  • Text for nursing students in class or homework
  • Supplement resource for study and life, e.g., new grads
Technical Requirements:

  • Internet access
  • Web browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:

Per the introduction in the workbook: “This workbook was created to help students learn how to make sense of numerical information in health care with the undergraduate nursing student in mind.”

After completion, the learner will:

  • Explain the math necessary to administer medications. 
  • Delineate lab result information used in nursing related to medications.
Target Student Population:

  • College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

  • The review of math makes this textbook useful for lower division college students with basic math knowledge.
  • Previous math knowledge and skills are helpful.

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

  • Complete and clear demonstration of the concept of math used by nurses in a step-by-step method.
  • Concepts within the content are clear, complete, and appropriate for the level of the learner.
  • The content approach and format is applicable to nursing and medication administration.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

  • Identifies learning objectives for each chapter.
  • Builds on prior knowledge and concepts. 
  • Potential effectiveness is high and well established through easily identified learning outcomes within each chapter and means to measure understanding.
  • Each chapter is set up with learning outcomes, exercises, practice sets, key takeaways, critical thinking questions, and references.
  • The exercises and practice sets have embedded answers to questions that are "hidden" yet accessible via a link.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

Easy to access online or can be downloaded to use offline.

The text is organized well from a table of contents. 

Each chapter uses accessibility programmed headings to identify each section including a review of key concepts.

Textbook software is easy to navigate and is in working order.

The content for each chapter is nicely arranged in a color-coded outline that is consistent throughout.

The side menu provides a means to also navigate between chapter content.

Other Issues and Comments:

Excellent resourse for nursing students and review for nurses who may find themselves in need of additional knowledge when administering medications.

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