Maths anxiety: how to conquer your fears and calculate with confidence
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Maths anxiety: how to conquer your fears and calculate with confidence

Daniel Allen Health journalist

Nurses use numeracy every day, when calculating drugs doses, fluid balance or in other essential tasks, but many worry about their competence when it comes to doing the maths

Rachel Game loves maths. But like many other nurses, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) principal lecturer wasn’t always keen.

Nursing Standard. 36, 7, 51-54. doi: 10.7748/ns.36.7.51.s22

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