cats

[Shamrock, BSN, RN]

Professionalism Test

Read this out loud:

This is this cat

This is is cat

This is how cat

This is to cat

This is keep cat

This is an cat

This is idiot cat

This is busy cat

This is for cat

This is forty cat

This is seconds cat

Now go back and read the THIRD word only, in each line from the

start.

Took me 50 seconds!!

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

Try this one

start with 1000 add 40 now add 1000 add 30 now add another 1000 add 20 and a final 1000 and add 10.

If you got 5000 you are wrong

[ayemmeff]

4100?

[Shamrock, BSN, RN]

5100 - and that took LONGER than 50 secs. :)

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

It is a good one to trick people with as the brain automatically add up teh smaller numbers not to 100 but to 1000 = try it in a group most people will say 5000 and since i was on teh thread earlier today about 2 nurses checking meds this is one of the best arguments for checking calculaations I know. It is not that we aer less than human in erring it is that we ARE human.

[RNonsense]

Originally posted by Shamrock

5100 - and that took LONGER than 50 secs. :)

Omg...I keep getting 4100...what's wrong with me...I'm lost...I'm confused...

[Shamrock, BSN, RN]

hmmmmm, mathmatically challenged? :) Just kidding, you are just not capturing all the numbers.

[GAstudent]

still getting 4100 here too:)

[RNonsense]

ACK!!! Too early in the morning for this! I'm going to the bar...

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

It is 4100.

The trick is that your head adds up those numbers that add to 100, but makes it 1,000, because that's what you see repeatedly.

Reason #298 to double check your dosage calculations with a calculator.

[Shamrock, BSN, RN]

Hahaha, jokes on me, when calculator used is 4100!!!

[RNonsense]

fargin shamrock.... :)