2011 OCC ADN Students

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i am in my first year as an Oakland County Community College ADN student. when i was waiting to get into school there was nobody who was in their first year to answer questions about what to expect. SO i wanted to post this thread and answer any questions that i can for anyone waiting or starting their first year at OCC, so feel free to ask any questions you have and i will do my best to answer them.:)

I have a new question today. Do we need to memorize all the conversion factors between the metric and the household system? Do I have to remember how many oz in a mL and so on? I havent been in a math class in a long time and it feels like learning it all over again forget the unfamiliar terms.

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for pharm, yes you really need to know oz to ml, really anything eng to met, but they no longer use household measurement. just memorize oz to ml and oz to grams.........and all metric conversions like grams to mg.

that's not entirely true you do need to be aware of drops, but usually they will tell you drops per ml.

you can get some practice tests on the occ/nursing website

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are all the metric conversions in the book?

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The second year is hard b/c they expect more of you and the tests are super hard. It also depends on which theory teacher you have. For m/s 2 the instructor that I had did not test on the material that she lectured on. So essentially, we had teach ourselves ortho-neuro. You need to make sure you read, read, read and also record lectures (or take good notes) . A few clinical instructors are very difficult. I know one that routinely fails 1-2 students per semester (out of 6-7). I guess it makes us stronger!

Okay but how are the tests so hard? Also if the teacher is not testing on what she is lecturing how is recording the lectures gonna help?

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i think there is a book that you buy for pharm that is all problems and conversions and etc....

i gave my pharm books to a friend of mine that is going suppose to start for 2011 so i dont have mine anymore

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i think there is a book that you buy for pharm that is all problems and conversions and etc....

i gave my pharm books to a friend of mine that is going suppose to start for 2011 so i dont have mine anymore

are there a lot of metric conversions to remember?

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I have been doing the practice problems in the book and getting a little better. One thing that bothered me though was in the book it said that

250mL = 8oz BUT

30mL = 1oz

shouldnt that be 240mL to 8oz? What do you think?

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30ml per oz your correct

if you have any practice problems involving IV's study those cause that is the one most people got wrong and you can only get one wrong on the test and pass

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addison

no its pretty much knowing the basics, I'd say maybe 5 different conversion in all, but you really need to know the metric system for grams, milligrams, micrograms and how many of one goes into the other.

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I never got those basics in any of my math classes. can you reference any books that has them all?

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i am almost positive that your dosage calc book from pharm has all of that info in it. if you dont have that book your local library should have books like metric in minutes or metric for me. if your library doesnt have them ask your librarian if they can get them from another library. you might also try the southfield and highland lakes campus libraries. they have the pharm book you can check out for in library use and make copies of the pages you need

hope that helps

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here is the practice test for pharm that i had

hope this helps everyone who needs it

Medication Calculation Practice Problems '09-'10.pdf

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