NURSING 2LA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Decimal Mark, Aspirin, Intravenous Therapy
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There are many occasions when it is necessary to convert one unit of measurement to another when. The metric system is based on a number of basic measures or units e. g. undertaking drug calculations. Large and small quantities of these units often have a prefix to make writing quantities more compact for example 0. 000001g may be written as 1 mcg or 1 g. M k h da e. g. g, m, l or s d c m mcg or . Converting a number from one metric unit to another involves moving the decimal place to the left or the. To work out how many decimal places to move: right: write the metric scale. Identify the two units in the problem: count the number of units from the unit given to the unit desired, move the decimal point the number of places from the given unit to the desired unit.
