Question

21. In your day-to-day routines, you likely use measurement to cook or do home renovations, such as adding new tile flooring. How do you imagine that you will use measurement in your healthcare career?

Answer 1

Measurement can be used in healthcare career also. Like - the doctors and nurses are well trained to give medicines accurately as per measurement of milligrams or nano-gram. High doses can prove fatal with some medicines, so the correct measurement is very necessary.

Similarly, measurement is used in syrups. Like a child can be given upto 5 mg of syrup twice daily.

Answer 2

Depending of the exact career but measurements are plentiful in the healthcare business.

First, you'll most likely deal with weight and height... since that's part of most health care consultations.

Then, if you deal with medication, you'll use grams, milligrams, milliliters, liters all the time. depending if the medication is in solid or liquid form.

Even as a nutritionist, you'll deal with grams and such for portion sizes.

There are countless of ways you'll use maths and measurements in the healthcare sector.