calculations test???

bamagt · Aug 31, 2009

You will take calculation tests during the pharmacology class and at the beginning of every semester starting with the 2nd semester.

Nothing is hard if you study

GinaK RN · Sep 1, 2009

its only hard if you don't remember what to round everything to! practice practice practice!

almostfearless · Sep 7, 2009

They've changed things a bit, so you no longer have to make a 90% in the first semester to pass, but they have not decided if the next semesters will stay at 90% or not.

So far, the math is really not that hard, and they demonstrate a small bit of it in class before you are expected to take the test. You just have to know what you're looking at.

1st semester has not had it's first Pharm. Test yet (it's this Wednesday), but I'm much less worried now than I was before the semester started (I'm a math-phobe, so that's a big deal)

I'd start studying unit conversions, including apothecary measures.

GinaK RN · Sep 7, 2009

I am glad you are more comfortable with the math. I know all it took was practice practice practice! They tend to put alot of things in the math problems that you have to over look before you decide what you need to plug into a formula.

good luck! I know i was lucky enough to have Ms Jones teach the math to us, and she was very good about it!

I am thankful to have that all behind me, and boards! If i did it, i'm pretty sure you can too!

09RN · Sep 8, 2009

I am glad you are more comfortable with the math. I know all it took was practice practice practice! They tend to put alot of things in the math problems that you have to over look before you decide what you need to plug into a formula.
good luck! I know i was lucky enough to have Ms Jones teach the math to us, and she was very good about it!
I am thankful to have that all behind me, and boards! If i did it, i'm pretty sure you can too!

Just thought I'd give you a heads up..your really not behind it. Once you go to work at a hospital you will have a math test and you have to make 100% on it.

But really once you learn it and by the time you are ready to graduate it will come like second nature to you.

GinaK RN · Sep 8, 2009

Just thought I'd give you a heads up..your really not behind it. Once you go to work at a hospital you will have a math test and you have to make 100% on it.
But really once you learn it and by the time you are ready to graduate it will come like second nature to you.

Thanks for the heads up. You know what's funny though, i did not have one math question on my boards! I have a job now, but it isn't in critical care like you in the MICU. No math test there. It must only be a hospital thing, or maybe policy? I am going to have to ask the few girls lucky enough to actually obtain hospital jobs who graduated with me in may.

09RN · Sep 8, 2009

Thanks for the heads up. You know what's funny though, i did not have one math question on my boards! I have a job now, but it isn't in critical care like you in the MICU. No math test there. It must only be a hospital thing, or maybe policy? I am going to have to ask the few girls lucky enough to actually obtain hospital jobs who graduated with me in may.

Everyone in my orientation had to take the test and not all were going to MICU most were going to med surg floors. I also have a friend that went to work for Children's and she had to take a math test as well and another at UAB with the same math test to take. I think most hospital do.

I too did not have any math on my NCLEX. Really that's a lower level question if you do get one but have known a few in my class to have a few.

Its good to hear that you have a job!Congrats!! :yeah: Alot still in my class do not.

GinaK RN · Sep 8, 2009

i am trying to find another job either part time or PRN. so wish me luck. i figure the hospitals will take me a little bit more seriously now that someone else in healthcare has hired me and that i no longer have a temp license, and actually have a real RN! wahoo!