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We had final exam in dosage for calculations/math today and over half class failed. We get to take it again this week. We did not get a chance to review questions missed/no time. Has anyone else had that experience? If we don't pass the 2nd time, we have to retake it and nursing 105 (Fundamentals) again................which i originally passed

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Specializes in ICU, ER, OR.

Dose calculations are taken very seriously and you will be failed. Ask your professor for a one on one review of the concepts you missed. They should be there to help you. If no remediation/review is offered after failing an exam of any kind seek an authority. It is unfair testing if you are not in some way made aware of your weak areas. The staff does not have to show you your exam, but they still should discuss what concept you are missing. Ask your professor to supply practice problems with detailed answers. If you can do a practice exam, you can do the math. My school has math competency exams twice a semester, each becomes more involved with new material presented. I only had to repeat a math exam once, and it was because I was nervous. I let the students around me get my nerves going. Now for every exam I take I avoid all classmates the day of an exam, so I can keep mojo.

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I failed our 3rd semester test and I'm out until next year. We get one chance a semester to pass and our semester's are consecutive so it takes two semesters to get back to the class you need. I agree with the previous poster, ask for a private review with the instructor and then do any practice exams provided. I wish we had 2 chances, I failed because of fear and nerves which I probably would not have had if it wasn't my only chance...

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

i do not understand why it is that some nursing programs do not get together with students and teach it more intensely unless they are deliberately using it as a weeding out factor.

there are some good, free online tutorials that you can work through to help learn the concepts behind this. they are listed on post #2 of this sticky thread:

there are also some problems that have been worked out on that thread as well as this one:

https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/dosage-calculations-88867.html - dosage calculations

good luck with your next attempt. something that might help is to draw pictures of the problem before actually doing the math. this is something one of my algebra teachers constantly told us to do when trying to solve word problems. and, because these drug problems are based on things we are doing in the real world many of them can be made into a drawing quite nicely.

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