cross-referencing numbers

[lauradi7dw]

Much of the past semester was spent learning to measure and grade various things (muscle strength, joint range of motion, depth of pits in pitting edema, yuckiness of pressure ulcers, stages of alertness/arousal/coma, on and on). It was suggested (for some classes, required in others) that we make charts and tables to remember all the tests and what the numbers mean. The semester is over, but in another week or so I am going to be in a clinic, trying to be useful (in addition to trying to do no harm), and probably it will be presumed that I know all this stuff, so I'm trying to organize review materials. I thought about trying to make one ur-chart of all the stuff that can be measured with numbers from 1-20, say (unlike ROM, which is measured in degrees, like any other angle). Being geek-adjacent and all, from time to time I see people make in-joke remarks about numbers that seem to be based on attributes one acquires from dice, and it occurred to me that maybe I should add those numbers to my chart. The only time I played such a dice-based RPG was in the late 1970s, when gyzki brought his Rolodex of information to our apartment to teach me to play D&D. I looked online this morning and found that strength, dexterity, and wound status can be determined with dice, so those numbers at least would fit thematically in my chart.