help with conversion !!!!

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Today in my math class the professor said that our text book had incorrect information!!!! He said that the conversions were WRONG!!!! and there were some students in the classroom that were doubting him and saying that he was wrong because this book has been used for several years.

Well for all of you that are nurses or give meds etc... can you please tell me how many teaspoons to minims?????:uhoh3:

The professor said that he is going to write to the publishers etc. etc.

He says that there are 80 minims to a tsp. and the book says 60 minims. I've looked online and I cant get a straight answer. I need to know which is right for so many reasons,:uhoh21: besides doing my homework !!!:stone

Thank you in advance

Amen to that!! :chuckle

...and if your hospital is going the way of most, minims will never be used at all.

The new focus on safer practice and the change in what kind of abbreviations are allowed is having "minims" drop by the wayside. The symbol looks too much like the number 3, no one has any measuring tools for minims any more and cc are more accurate.

I'm suprised it's being taught!

Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

I remember being taught in my Math for Allied Health class last year that minims were no longer used, along with some other old dosing maths. I have NO CLUE why we have to learn it, then or again now in Fundamentals. Good question to ask for tomorrow, though.

Of course, I think having to remember the dates of the Crimean War when Florence Nightingale nursed soldiers is ridiculous too. Learn about Florence and nursing history - sure, it's interesting and applicable. Dates of wars - please! I'm a nursing major, not a history major.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, educator.

18 years and I have never seen a minim or a dram :lol Why teach that stuff...all it does is confuse!

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