Introduction All nurses use math daily in their workplaces while providing health care for patients in hospitals and any other place. Nurses, together with doctors, apply math concepts while writing prescriptions or administering medications to the patients. They also apply math while sketching out success rates and epidemics statistical graphs and use math during CAT scans and x-rays since math offers plenty of information and data to medical practitioners, including nurses (Hutton, 2008). It is important for nurses to have an appropriate knowledge in math and patients should be aware that all nurses and other medical practitioners have been appropriately trained by learning mathematics and their application in medicine. Prescriptions and Medication Commonly, nurses provide prescriptions to their patients for different diseases and the prescriptions they provide show a precise medication and dosage quantity. Nearly all medications have been assigned instructions for dosage quantities in milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) and nurses are required to work out the amount of medication a patient is needed to be assigned based on their kind of illness, the degree of the illness, weight, age, and other measurements. If the weight of the patient has been provided only in pounds, nurses are required to convert that measurement to kilograms and later evaluate the quantity of milligrams for the prescription (Koohestani, 2010). The above also is applicable for other factors such as age. Big variations between mg/lbs and mg/kg are there and all practitioners need to know how to covert correctly weight dimensions. Nurses should also find out the period in which the prescription will last. For instance, if a patient is prescribed to take, say one pill, two times a day, therefore, one month of pills would be around 60 pills. However, most patients want two to three months prescriptions for assurance and reliability functions and nurses should evaluate the number of pills that they should be assigned. Nurses can perform these calculations mentally with speed and accuracy to avoid any errors that may lead to severe costs to patients. Nurses should also reflect on the duration the medicine provided to the patient will remain in the body. This helps to evaluate how often the patient is required to take medication to keep an adequate quantity of the medicine in the body (Wilfong, Szolis, and Haus, 2007, p. 69). For instance, a patient is prescribed to take a pill in the morning that has 60mg of a certain medicine. During the morning of the next day, the body has used up 50% of the medication and this signifies that 30mg have been used up and just 30mg stay in the patient’s body. The patient goes on to take 60mg pill every morning and this signifies that on the morning of day two, patient’s body has the 30 mg that remained, in addition to another 60mg that the patient will take in the morning of day two, which sum up to be 90mg (Boye, 2008, p. 41). As this condition goes on, the nurses should establish how frequent a patient should take the medication and determine the duration as well. This helps to maintain sufficient medicine in the body of the patient to function successfully, but without providing an overdos