As a nursing major, statistics plays a vital role in the work performed in this job. I’m interested in understanding data, problem solving and how one event relates to another event. My goal in this class is to better understand the material well and excel, so it can help me in my future career. My goals for my career are to be working at a hospital as a RN and be able to use the problem-solving skills from statistics to help with situations in the field. I have taken math courses such as algebra 1 and 2, geometry, precalculus, and stats in high school. My comfort level with mathematics and abstract reasoning is average since it’s been two years since my last math class.
In this course, I expect to get a better understanding on how this Statistics will connect more with my major and allow me to be a better nurse once I start working in the field. I expect to gain a better understanding at abstract reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking. This will help me in the future with nursing and everyday life.
From reading the syllabus in the class, I have learned that the information that I will learn Stat 212 will help me in following classes such as psychology and nursing science. From talking to people in my field over study, statistics will be useful in my career because you are constantly making observations with the patient’s status. When making observations, you determine on whether or not this person needs immediate care. Statistics is used to make the right judgment in that moment of time when administering the right drug and the correct dosage.
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From doing online research, I found three articles relating to why statistics is important in nursing major. The following articles are “Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care,” “Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing” and “Successful Statistics for Nursing and Healthcare.” The first article discusses how in order to understand charts and reports given, you have to have a statistical literacy to be able to read them properly.
When nurses go under an investigation of a patient that is involving taking a data collecting, it’s important that they understand the terminology and how to correctly analyze what they have learned from their investigation. The second article discusses that having a statistical based knowledge will help providing the best care to the patient and their families. You are accountable every day to those patients that you are taken care of and having the basic understanding of statistics will help ensure the quality care that they deserve.
The last article discusses basically how you must see a patient as not only a human but as a statistic. You must use what you know about statistics to help determine what the patient could potentially be ill with. Nurses are constantly taking data of every patient and having this knowledge of what the odds are, and reasoning will help getting the patient healthy again.
Before heading into this course, I didn’t believe that it would be of any value to me since I had already taken it in high school and didn’t know what influence it had on being a nurse. After all my research and reading, I realize that statistics plays a huge role in not only being a nurse but health care itself. I know see this course as a very important part in my path to nursing and that I need to take it seriously and really learn the concepts because I will be using them for the rest of my career.
Bibliography
- Fowler, Jim, et al. Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care. John Wiley & Sons, 2002. https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:3447/lib/wsu/reader.action?docID=1221165&ppg=19
- Kim, MyoungJin, and Mallory, Caroline. Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing. 2nd ed., Jones &Amp; Bartlett Learning, 2017. https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/1284088375
- Watson, Roger, et al. “Successful Statistics for Nursing and Healthcare.” Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zphMDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=statistics+in+nursing&ots=w4eRPKxr11&sig=Zak8CtKLz4Scbfbcf5CVCFmTaoM#v=onepage&q=statistics%20in%20nursing&f=false
