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Evidence for contemporary nursing education
Confidence and anxiety of nurse academics in teaching unfamiliar subjects in undergraduate nursing education
  1. Michael J Tatterton1,2,
  2. Elizabeth Cooper1
  1. 1 School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
  2. 2 Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice, North Anston, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Michael J Tatterton; m.tatterton{at}bradford.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104233

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    This is a commentary on: Minty-Walker, C., Pettigrew, J., Rylands, L., et al (2024). Nurse academics and the teaching of undergraduate nursing numeracy: A cross-sectional study of self-reported confidence and anxiety. Nurse Education Today, 144, 106422.1

    Context

    Health numeracy is a fundamental element of nursing, extending beyond the calculation of medicine doses, to include fluid volumes and rates, body mass index calculations and changes to weight as well as mathematic principles such as fractions, decimals and percentages.2 Proficiency in health numeracy is a requirement of nursing regulators around the globe. The experience of stress and anxiety associated with numeracy, and its correlation with performance, confidence and a fear of failure is widely reported from the perspective of students.3 However, there remains a gap in research surrounding the experience of nurse academics when teaching mathematics.1

    Methods

    The study was designed to answer the question: ‘what are the confidence and anxiety levels of nurse academics when teaching undergraduate nursing numeracy?’ A cross-sectional study, based on previously published research,4 was designed to explore the experience of Australian nurse academics. Convenience and purposeful …

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests MJT is an editor of Evidence-Based Nursing.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer-reviewed.