Is my dosage teacher correct?

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I just recieved a 54 on a Dosage quiz, where all my answers were correct!!! :banghead:

I was marked wrong for using "ratio and proportion" as a formula. Technically...isn't ratio and proportion a formula?

The first 5 questions of the quiz we were supposed to solve the problems using ratio and proportion. The directions for the last 8 questions read exactly as: "Solve each problem using both formulas. Round answers to the nearest tenth." So I used ratio and proportion as formula #1 and DW/DS= DV/SV for formula #2.

I got ALL my answers correct.

Who's crazy...ME or my teacher?

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what other formula did she want you to use? Since it is her opinion that is going to count

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

the most stupid thing that i've ever seen... as long as you get the correct answer it should be good...

she is just trying to complicate things..

blahhhrg

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Thanks for understanding my frustration!! I can't read her mind. Perhaps she should have specifically asked for us to use 2 formulas other than ratio and proportion.

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i understand the point of learning more than one formula, i cant answer the op about r/p being one or not.....so what is it that the teacher was looking for??

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My teacher was looking for the formula D/H x Q.

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http://classes.kumc.edu/son/nurs420/clinical/basic_review.htm

apparently the ratio method isnt considered a formula......i had to look this up, i didnt know what D/H = Q meant!

even thought that is the method i would use......though i think of it as a ratio.....hmm...i know it as D/H=X

X as in "unknown"..never learned DA...

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

Technically you did not follow the rules so I guess she can give you that grade. I do not think it is fair...there are more than one way to skin a cat and if calculating drug doses by proportion is what works for you and you can get the correct answer...that is all that should matter...I personally use the :

50mg: Xkg:: 500mg: 45mg

method, and none other. It is what works for me and what I understand. Why fix it if its not broken?? As far as I know there is not a calculation that you HAVE to use ratio or you HAVE to use formula...

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I'm surprised that dosage tutorials still use "cc" in examples when this is considered a dangerous abreviation - JHACO has advised us to use "mL" for a long time.

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I'm sorry, but I think you should fight that one somehow. You got ALL answers correct, yet you were marked wrong.... huh.

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

no matter how as long as you can get to the point... that is so last century to make some one get to the answer using a certain formula!!! that is like teaching a cat to bark!!!

if you are used to/like/ or for waterver reason decide to get to your medcalc answers using a certaing formula, as long as you can show your work it should all be good!!!

we do dose/have x quantity

but i don't!!! my teacher laughes at me since i turn it all into algebraic eq's!!!

i like getting to the answer by solving for x or even add another variable in case i need it...

it is crazy but it is my way and it works, and i passed my medcalc on the first attempt!!!

your teacher needs an upgrade!!! lol

"nursing evolves, and nurses adapt to it on a daily basis"

and your teacher might still count rocks for sheeps/!

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