good chemistry teacher

[kats]

At the beginning of the semester, I was a bit worried about my chemistry class since we didn't have any books at all. Now we do though and it is so much better. Also, I am not sure if this is typical for a college chemistry class since I am still in pre-reqs, but our teacher gives us examples to work with that are related to nursing. For instance, we are doing various conversion factor problems and we have been doing problems like figuring out how many pills would be required for administering a certain amount of medicine that is available in a certain strength pill. We ended up determining that the patient would need 9/10 of a pill to get what the doctor prescribed. Then the teacher asked what we would do next. I said that I would contact the doctor to determine if he would want to increase the dose so that the patient would take a whole pill (if that wouldn't make it toxic), if it was available in another form (like a liquid), or if there was something else all together that would be appropriate. We also used nursing as an example while learning to use the graphical analysis program. Anyways, I just thought you all would like to know that it is getting better and see if this is the kind of stuff you all are or were doing.

[twarlik]

That's great! I wish my chemistry teacher had been able to incorporate some nursing principles into the class. It's funny because a lot of my fellow classmates struggled through a drug math test we were given last week. Many of us realized however, that drug math is just like all those chemistry problems that we thought would never have any application in real life.

Good luck with chemistry!

[Carolanne]

That's great that your teacher takes nursing into consideration. When I took it, there were too many different majors going on with everyone in the class, so he never narrowed it down like that. That really helps to pull it all together - to this day, I don't know why we had to learn the table of elements and moles!