Math Conversions In Nursing Profession

After reviewing the power point slides and reading over the material in the textbooks, I have learned that there is a tremendous amount of information to take in with learning medical terminology and math conversions. As far as medical terminology, I see how useful it is to recognize the prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and combining forms. Recognizing these basic word structures helps to gain a better understanding on how to exactly understand the rules and combine word parts in order to write medical terms in their correct form. I believe that this is an important foundation because it will help you to perform your job as far as being able to identify medical conditions, surgical procedures, symptoms, and diagnoses. The basic math conversions really tests your basic math skills. Using your basic knowledge of multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals, changing percentages to fractions, knowing how to use conversions within the metric system, and understanding roman numerals play an important role in building the skill sets needed to understand the systems used for drug administration and temperature conversions.