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NanaDee

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Registered: 2009-02-11

Posts: 8

Hello everyone!

Hello everyone,

I found your site when looking for someone to answer a question about logical fallicies. I got a wonderful answer that I sent to the person that I was having the discussion with. Today I looked around your forum and decided that you have some interesting posts.

I am  no math expert. I barely hold my own. However, I have taught dose calculations many years to student nurses (and already licensed nurses). You might be surprised at the lack of basic math skills in many students. Most nurses need to just use simple ratios to do dose calculations, but some cannot do even that. Scarey when you think about it. If you take 2 vitamins by mistake, no problem. But what about heart medications? Digoxin is a medication that strenthens the heart muscle so that it can contract more effectively. But you have to know that .25 mg is larger than .125 mg. If you gave 5 of the .25 mg size thinking you were giving .125 mg, you could put the patient into cardiac arrest.

So by way of introduction, I am a nurse consultant/nurse educator, songwriter, novelist, mother of 3 and grandmother of 4.

I like basic math best (since that is my level of understanding) and logic. I should go back and study the logical fallicies, since you read them in the news all the time. And now I cant remember the names. When I took logic, it was lots of fun to identify which fallacy was being spoken or written.

MathsIsFun

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Registered: 2005-01-21

Posts: 7,713

Re: Hello everyone!

Hi NanaDee, and a big welcome to the forum

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"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: Hello everyone!

Welcome, NanaDee!

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,395

Re: Hello everyone!

Hi NanaDee,

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.