Who's program teaches the apothecary system?????

[garnetgirl29]

I'm just curious because this system seems rediculously innacurate to me. My program requires it. In fact, more than half of my calculations test was covernting drams and grains to the metric & household system. And, we are not allowed to use a calculator.

Are there apothecary questions on the NCLEX PN? NCLEX RN? Is a calculator allowed?

[garnetgirl29, BSN, RN]

Thanks for all the comments. I understand the need to be familiar with it, but I do wish that it wasn't emphasized so strongly in our program(or at least let us use a calculator, those grain fractions are easy to mess up). We had a new instructor this year for our nutrition class who wanted to teach pharm as well, but she argued that the apothecary system was obsolete and should not be taught. Well, she didn't get the job...I can't help but wonder if that had some play in her not getting it, especially since the dept. chair ended up teaching the class. Oh well. I learned it, as did the rest of my class, and amazingly, by the 2nd try....everyone passed! We were told that's a rare thing. So yeah, my class is special! :)