How much math is involved in nursing school?

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I am curious about how much math is involved in nursing school? Is it a little or a lot? And what classes do you typically have that incorporate medical math?? what is the general level of difficulty?

I bought Math for Meds by Anna M Curren online. It's a pretty good book. But the nursing program that I applied to doesn't use this book so when I get some money I will buy theirs in advance.

That's the book we use to learn dosage calculations.

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That's the book we use to learn dosage calculations.

It's a good book. How many chapters are you tested on for each exam?

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That's the book we use to learn dosage calculations.

It's a good book. how many chapters are you tested on for each exam?

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I am curious about how much math is involved in nursing school? Is it a little or a lot?
Very little... but the little bit that there is is very important.
And what classes do you typically have that incorporate medical math??
First off, that's a misnomer. It's not 'medical' math... it's just simple algebra. If anything, you'd call it 'chemistry' math since it's just the process of calculating dilutions/concentrations or 'dimensional' math since it's also the process of converting dimensions/units from one to another.
what is the general level of difficulty?
It's very rudimentary stuff... 6th grade math level with 8th or 9th grade science fundamentals. As to its difficulty, that really depends on the student.
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It's a good book. how many chapters are you tested on for each exam?

We aren't tested on the chapters. Basically, we use the book to learn the dosage calculations pretty much on our own. Then we have a dosage calculation test that we have to pass in 3 tries. Only one person didn't pass on the 3rd try.

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We aren't tested on the chapters. Basically, we use the book to learn the dosage calculations pretty much on our own. Then we have a dosage calculation test that we have to pass in 3 tries. Only one person didn't pass on the 3rd try.

So for the exam, the teacher pulls random dosage calculations from different chapters?

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So for the exam, the teacher pulls random dosage calculations from different chapters?

Actually, no. They don't come from the book, they don't even look like the ones in the book but that doesn't really matter. Once you learn how to do them, it doesn't matter if they're not the same.

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do you do math in nursing fundamentals?

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do you do math in nursing fundamentals?

Yes, we did. But most of it was in Pharmacology. And we have math calculations throughout the nursing program.

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Math was my biggest block to the thought of NS. Fortunately my phobia/fear didn't last long, cause we just finished Math class and I passed. (better than I thought I would at least)

Add, subtract, multiply, divide. There are formulas (and even that word can sound intimidating) but it's mostly to just memorize the "how" and 'where" you put the numbers. Two worst things are ratio/proportion(multiply the innies by outies) and IV ratios (which someone showed above).

If you've bought any med math book there will probably be a quick chart. Just stick that in your pocket and you'll be ready to go.

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It's mostly arithmetic with basic algebra included such as the formula: volume X set / time. Titration is probably the most "complex" thing, but it's still grossly doable. Nevertheless, schools, both H.S. and colleges, churn out people who are utterly incompetent at math. You'll have to do some converstion too such as milliliters to tablespoons or something. If you've never heard of a grain, dram, or minim then look it up.

I can't get over the grown people who don't get something like

You're ordered to give a patient 10 mg of some stated medicine. The bottle of pills has little pills in it and a label that says each pill is 5 mg. How many little pills are you going to give so that the patient gets 10 mg?

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It's mostly arithmetic with basic algebra included such as the formula: volume X set / time. Titration is probably the most "complex" thing, but it's still grossly doable. Nevertheless, schools, both H.S. and colleges, churn out people who are utterly incompetent at math. You'll have to do some converstion too such as milliliters to tablespoons or something. If you've never heard of a grain, dram, or minim then look it up.

I can't get over the grown people who don't get something like

You're ordered to give a patient 10 mg of some stated medicine. The bottle of pills has little pills in it and a label that says each pill is 5 mg. How many little pills are you going to give so that the patient gets 10 mg?

Yes, the math is doable. Out of 30 students, only 1 couldn't get the math test on the 3rd try.

We had a question on a test that went something like this: The dosage was 1000mg and the vial contained 1g. How many doses are in the vial? Half the class put 5 doses. I have no idea how they came up with that.

Yesterday on the final, a classmate was asking me about the same kind of problem, meaning it had 1000mg and 1g and she was going on and on about how confused she was. I really just wanted to tell her that I just cannot see how she doesn't know that 1000mg = 1g by now....?

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