Develop and assess the healthcare numeracy skills that underpin safe practice

safeHANDS is informed by over 30 years of research and extends the scope of our existing and widely used Foundation Numeracy Assessment (FNA) and Healthcare Numeracy Assessment (HNA) modules. It incorporates 20 core areas of mathematics and healthcare numeracy that underpin and inform the safe practice of a wide range of nursing proficiencies and clinical procedures.

safeHANDS makes it easy to assess your learners' capability to develop the mathematics and healthcare numeracy skills required to meet programme outcomes and provides a platform to support them in continuously developing their abilities in numeracy throughout their studies.

DEVELOP AND ASSESS UP TO 20 CORE AREAS OF MATHEMATICS & HEALTHCARE NUMERACY

• Addition of Whole Numbers
• Subtraction of Whole Numbers
• Multiplication of Whole Numbers
• Division of Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Percentage
• Ratio
• Equivalences between fractions, decimals, percentages

• Conversion between SI and other measurement units
• Conceptual problem solving
• Formula & Equations
• Rounding of Numbers
• Estimation
• Indices & Logarithms
• Calculator Use
• Measurement
• Interpretation of tables, charts and graphs
• Statistics

When scheduling a safeHANDS assessment for your learners, you can choose to include as many or as few of the skill domains providing the utmost flexibility in terms of learner or curriculum requirements.

BASELINE MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT

Assess entry level capability

At programme outset, provide your learners with a baseline assessment of competence in the 20 fundamental mathematical building blocks of nursing science and practice.

DIAGNOSTIC HEALTHCARE NUMERACY ASSESSMENT

Assess the individual skill domains

Assess your learners' competence development in each of the 20 individual skills domains in authentic practice contexts at key progression points throughout the curriculum.

MATHEMATICS & HEALTHCARE NUMERACY PERFORMANCE FINGERPRINT

Identify your learners strengths and weaknesses

The Mathematics and Healthcare Numeracy Performance Fingerprint enables you to identify your learners' strengths and weaknesses in mathematics right from the outset and better plan and direct their support and development needs to help them progress successfully through the programme.

Within the HMPF each block represents an assessment item (3 per skill domain) and colour-coding differentiates between correctly and incorrectly answered questions.

MATHEMATICS & HEALTHCARE NUMERACY LEARNING SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT

Supporting learners competence development

Provide focused learner support in crafting competence in the 20 individual skill domains through detailed exemplar video tutorials for accurately and appropriately solving nursing mathematics and healthcare numeracy problems.

SUMMATIVE HEALTHCARE NUMERACY ASSESSMENT

Assess the individual skill domains

Assess your learners' competence development in each of the 20 individual skills domains in authentic practice contexts prior to registration or licensure.

COMBINATORY HEALTHCARE NUMERACY ASSESSMENT

Assess combinations of skill domains

Further prepare your learners for practice by assessing their competence development using combinations of the 20 skill domains in sequences that reflect the healthcare numeracy requirements of common clinical procedures e.g. taking a pulse.

Note that this module is due for launch in 2024.