FCCJ SPRING 2010

FNPLoading..., ASN, BSN, MSN · Jan 7, 2010

KayKy

I brought the Littmann Cardiology III for my stethoscope! I believe as long as its a Littmann you are good!

fannyUV · Jan 7, 2010

I bought a littman lightweight stethoscope and its great and 1/3 the weight. Great if you have back issues!

FNPLoading..., ASN, BSN, MSN · Jan 8, 2010

Just ran out of ink halfway through printing out all of Pharm ppts! My goodness I JUST bought a new cartridge this MORNING!!! :eek:

casperostrich · Jan 8, 2010

LOL Future, that is exactly what happened to me! Started with a new cartridge and began printing the other three classes. Then I knew I wouldn't make it thru pharm so I picked up another just in case. Sure enough, ran out in the middle of pharm!! Have you been looking at the pp as they print off? I think that is the only class that scares me b/c there is so much on those pp's.

CW

FLmomof5 · Jan 8, 2010

OK all you gung-ho folks!..... (1) Most people print the syllabus. No - the teachers do NOT give handouts in class....EXCEPT the signature page for you to sign that you read the syllabus. (2) You only need to print out the ppts the week you do it in class. (3) if you have good eyesight, when you print the ppts, select the option to print handouts and you get 6 per page! For me, I do mine at work and this printer is set up for double sided printing so I get 12 per page. :)

yari77 · Jan 8, 2010

Does anyone now if we are going to have word problems on the dosage test?

FLmomof5 · Jan 8, 2010

yes there will be word problems.

casperostrich · Jan 10, 2010

OK so here is what I found out. I was tired of trying to figure out when to use the rounding rules and when not. So I sent Miss E an e-mail to get clarification. The short of the long is this. When moving the decimal as in from L to mL and so forth, don't round, just move the decimal and add your 0 in the beginning as needed and remove trailing 0 if required. All other problems, such as fractions to decimals, add, sub, mult, and div decimals, then round by the rules. I did find in Topic 1's practice test a problem that gives the answer to two places even though it should be one. I am counting that as an error.

Hope that helps those of you that have had the same problem when dealing with the answers to the practice tests.

On a good note, I timed myself when working the practice test, including writing out the problems from the test sheet to my notebook paper so I could re-test without re-printing the sheet each time, and completed the entire 37 problems in 18 minutes with none wrong! I feel good about this test and will not be too over-confident when I get in there, just in case they throw some curves. :) But I feel like I can complete the 50 in under an hour since time is usually my biggest problem with math. I take my time with math problems and generally run out of time if I am not paying attention to the clock.

So with that, good luck to us all with the first two tests tomorrow and with beginning classes this week! :) We are on our way!!

CW

FNPLoading..., ASN, BSN, MSN · Jan 10, 2010

Casperostrich there will only be 25 questions on the dosage calculations! You have to answer 20 right to pass!! :) there are 50 questions on the med terms! Tomorrow is the day!!!

FLmomof5 · Jan 10, 2010

They also don't 'throw curves'. I finished the first math calc test in 10 min.

Good luck to all of you tomorrow!

c2brn7 · Jan 10, 2010

Has anyone gone into the online med term? I noticed our reading assignment is to complete the on-line med term for supplemental information related to the chapter. I'm not sure if that's the evolve or the bb. Does anyone happen to know? Any clue on what the med term test is like?

Thanks in advance.

FNPLoading..., ASN, BSN, MSN · Jan 10, 2010

CaldieK the online material for med terms is on the evolve website!