Math help

Sorry my fractions aren't displaying correctly--hopefully you are able to make sense of my work!

If this is characteristic of your reasoning and algebra skills, you are going to do jus' fine. Heck, you can probably tutor your classmates. :anpom:

All these questions are simple but this goes to show how school and real life nursing are so different. The heck I'm going to be adjusting rates to play catch up on some simple IVF. Maybe I shouldn't say this but am I the only one that will adjust a rate then call the MD? I keep an eye on IVF more in regards to what it's doing to the patients opposed to this silly catch up stuff? For example, I have pts peeing ALL night that are NOT NPO and have no medical need for IVF but silly residents forget to DC the 150 mL per hour infusion. Come on now. Nursing schools teach some silly stuff. I honestly can't see how RN school helped except with meds and a couple of other stuff.

Rant over.

Your math looks great by the way! =) Good job.

Thanks GrnTea for the vote of confidence. I need to learn to trust myself more. It took me forever to reason through both of these problems, so therefore I assumed I must have been doing something wrong.

I agree with you NGTKingRN. This math stuff ticks me off. And I have always been relatively good at math, I feel bad for my classmates who struggle some with math. I don't know about other programs, but we will be having these mandatory math tests every semester until we graduate which have to be passed at 85% I so much wish they could somehow teach nursing material (all of it, not just the math) in a more "real world" scenario. I know a lot of it is supposed to teach us to be critical thinkers or so our instructors can see our thought process and critical thinking skills. I have worked in health care as a respiratory therapist for the past 20 years, and I get frustrated cuz I know much of the material is not how the real world works.