title: Numeracy and nurse prescribing: do the standards achieve their aim?
abstract: The new standards of proficiency for Nurse and Midwife prescribers have been in place for 4 years and have provided a challenge for education providers and students alike. Many students find the pass mark of 100% for numeracy a frightening prospect, the way numeracy is assessed can vary across the higher education institutions adding to the complexity of the problem. Drug calculation remains a challenge for the nursing profession and the standards for numeracy assessment in nurse prescribing add more to the debate.
authors.affiliation: Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing, Buckinghamshire New University, 106 Oxford Road, Uxbridge UB81NA, UK. sue.axe@bucks.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Axe
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D054796:Drug Dosage Calculations; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000592:standards*