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This link is intended as a 'quick find' for those students wishing to access resources on the subject of writing in health. The listed references represent only a few of the resources available on the subject and are by no means exhaustive.
Online resources for health students
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Throughout the Workshop section of this site you are directed to many online sites providing information and interactive exercises to help you to develop your study skills and academic writing skills. Most of these online sites are not related to health. However, the following online resources are health related or use health-related topics for their examples or exercises.
Nursing Calulators
Author: RMIT university
Reference: Available online
Contains a series of videos explaining standard calculations used by nurses in the workplace
- Finding the volume required: defining the formula
- Finding the volume required: understanding the formula
- Finding the volume required: calculating from the labels
- Finding the volume required: need over have
- Using proportions with liquid solutions
- Converting between large and small units
- Medication dosage by bodyweight
- The flowrate formula
- Managing fractions and decimals in the flowrate formula
- Dropfactor: converting between millilitres and drops
- Converting flowrates between mL/hr and dpm
- Solving problems using dimensional analysis