Decoding the DNA of Healthcare Numeracy

There is an international consensus that nurses need to be skilled in mathematics and healthcare numeracy to provide safe nursing care.

However, there is a lack of consensus on the specific mathematics and healthcare numeracy needed. This has led to an idiosyncratic and relativistic approach to mathematics and numeracy testing in nurse education. Healthcare numeracy is culture-specific, deeply embedded and often hidden in the nucleus of professional nursing practice. It is so deeply embedded in the culture of nursing that we call the process of revealing it, ‘Decoding The DNA Of Healthcare Numeracy.’