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I'm a nursing student and need to know how percents apply to nursing. Decimals don't count! Please help!! Thanks

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

a really vague question. What is the topic? Meds? Number of students who complete nursing school? Number of nurses who expect to retire soon? Just what do you want to know?

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There isn't a topic. It's just in general, I would guess medication wise. But how nurses use percents!

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

some labs are reported in percentages, Oxygen saturation, arterial blood gases, and others. These percentages all relate to the one patient and does not compare that patient to another person. For instance, Hemoglobin A1c is stated in percentages and, states the percentage of red blood cells with glucose sticking to them (rough interpretation). It does not state how this patient's RBC relate to another person's. Hope this helps.

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Hematocrit is the percentage by volume of red blood cells in whole blood, to determine anemia. :heartbeat

A test for cardiac enzymes, CK-MB%, reports percentage of CK-MB, an isoenzyme specific to cardiac muscle. This helps to differentiate skeletal muscle damage from cardiac muscle damage. So the lab will determine CK, CK-MB, and then divide the CK into MB. Normal is

Another percentage I use daily is in recording how much a patient took of their meal. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

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