Pharm Math Req in your school

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Specializes in RN.

4th level RN student. Our school has adopted a 90% Math competency for our program, for all levels. Just wondering what it is at your school and the name of that school. Our exam was 20 questions, we have lost some people because of the change from >76% to >90%...

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Specializes in Infusion.

100%, I attend some random comm college in Oregon. We haven't lost a soul because of the 100% requirement. I will say that people who don't pass the first time get 2 more chances though.

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I am first semester and we have to get 100% by our third attempt.

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Specializes in RN.

Oh I should mention, we get 2 chances...

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

Every class with a clinical means taking another med calc test each time. Students must get a 95% to 100% depending on the class, 2 tries max. Fail and you cannot go to clinical and thus fail the class. We haven't lost anyone.

Med calc math is math any 7th grader should be able to do without a calculator. Minus knowing what a microgram is or what QID/TID/BID means, I could have done it in 4th grade.

It frightens me for our nation that nursing students would be allowed to pass with 76% on med calc or that they need punchyboxes to do the test.

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Specializes in RN.

I guess we are already seeing different variables. Difficulty may be a factor when comparing schools. SummitAP, we cannot do the math on our tests in our head. This makes me wonder about difficulty levels, if someone is doing medical math in their head, THAT scares me...just saying...

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

I didn't say in your head. I said without a calculator. Nobody has to do it in their head, but you ought to be able to do it with a pen an paper.

And in a nice quiet classroom, yes I can do it in my head and get a 100% every time at most writing down an intermediate number. Everyone else brings their calculators. At 0400 with alarms going off, then I might use a pencil and paper or even a calculator to be faster or double check.

It's just addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It is not calculus!

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100% @ my school. The hospital I'm doing clinicals this semester also required their own math test. So we had to pass our school's test and the hospital's own test with 100% before being able to start clinicals. I'm in my 3rd semester, no one has failed out because of dosage calc.

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First semester is 90% and the other semesters are 95%.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/LDRP/Ortho ASC.

100% from 1st semester to the end...the first semester we are allowed 3 attempts to meet the requirement and then it drops to 2. We have to show all work step by step.

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My school requires 80% for entrance, 85% to advance to second semester, then 90% to advance to 3rd semester and 95% to advance to 4th semester. You will not graduate if you do not have 100% by the end of your 4th semester. Also, there are opportunities to retake the test, but I'm not sure how that works as I have passed all my tests.

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Specializes in LDRP.

the first two semesters we had to take a 20 question math quiz and get a 90 on it or were kicked out... i believe they give you 2 chances, but im not totally sure. i was expecting another one this semester, but im in 2nd week and no mention of one yet. hmm.

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