Calculators.

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This thread is inspired by another thread that I read in the general nursing discussion forum. My question is, did anyone here attend an LPN program that didn't allow the use of calculators?

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Specializes in A little of this, a little of that.....

My class didn't use them. As my instructor said, "Back when I trained with Flo, we didn't have 'em; and in an emergency, you think you're gonna have time to use it?"

"Mac"

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Our school, no calculators..And we had an exit exam where we had to score 90% or above to pass...No calculators..When we did our exams, we had to be careful about careless mistakes made in division

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We weren't allowed to use calculators, either.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Trained with Flo, lmao.

Sometimes we got to use them, sometimes we didn't.

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I'm a trainee enrolled nurse in Australia which I think is LPN? For our medication exams we aren't allowed to use calculators.

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

We were able to use calculators, and there is a calculator on the NCLEX computer. I do have time to use my calculator in my place of work. My math skills are not that great without it, and if I were denied to use it in nursing school, then, I probably would have failed out.

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