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Yeah, this week we're working on mean, median, and mode :rollseyes: I guess that was one of the easiest math concepts I learned in elementary school, so at least I get an A. I guess I should appreciate the easier stuff, but I just wish he would've spent more time on dosages and less time on stuff I don't care about. It doesn't help that the class is 3 hours long and the teacher is a little out there. My boyfriend tells me about weird professors, and I've had some when I went to community college, but this guy takes it to a whole new level...he plays random youtube videos as introductions that don't actually correlate with lessons. He comes in with his shirt tucked in and you can look away for 30 seconds and look back and it's not tucked in anymore. It doesn't help that we also have "that girl" in the class. You know...the one who gets 100% on every test and when the teacher is teaching he'll have us do any equation and then solve it himself. She'll do it a different way, but get the right answer...then raise her hand and make him spend 10 minutes explaining to her why adding 2+4=6 just as adding 4+2 also equals 6 and it doesn't matter which way you do it as long as you get the right answer. Yeah...that girl.

Well, I know about all of the use of these types of equipment, and we actually learn most of that stuff in my actual nursing class, not math. I think my math teacher tries to teach us stuff about IV's, different tools, etc. but usually ends up making a mistake. One student who took the class previously said he actually confronted him about it because he already works in healthcare and noticed he was giving out wrong information, so he's not as bad now as I guess he was in the past. I think the main thing is that he needs to give us a reason why pertaining to healthcare. I know my whole class is just frustrated because he'll teach us to measure a triangle and just expect us to know how to do it on a joint or something. When we were learning dosage calculations, we had just started learning about the different formulas for medications, and he randomly threw IV bags with drops/minute and all of this random stuff in on the test. I guess that's with all math teachers/classes though...they teach you something so simple, but expect you to be able to do a random, complicated problem without ever using one as an example...

I'm a first semester nursing student and I'm taking a clinical mathematics course. I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problems as I am...in the beginning, we were told how everything we learned in this class would relate to nursing and we wouldn't be learning "fluff" stuff that we would never be using in life. I expected conversions, dosage calculations, and some stuff for body surface area, etc. I'm 3 weeks away from completing the course and in the past 12 weeks, we have spent maybe 2 classes on dosage calculations, 1 class on conversions, and 1 class on the body surface and stuff. We also did roman numerals for the apothecary method, which is important in the off chance that I ever encounter the apothecary method as the hospital affiliated with my school (where I will probably work for at least a while) never uses that. Anyway, for every week that wasn't filled with the actual important stuff, we have been learning really useless stuff that doesn't mean anything to me. My teacher wants us to know geometry and how to take the area of a triangle, and he has spent so much time on doing this stuff! When asked why we need to know this, he says, "Angles are everywhere! Look at the room there is a right angle! You can measure your nurse's stations area!" and stuff along those lines, so basically, he has no way to justify it. Is anyone else finding this in their clinical math classes? I mean....I went through all of that stuff in high school, and I understand there are older people who haven't been to school in a while, but they seem to remember it pretty well too.

I'm a first semester student and my teacher sort of through IV problems into our homework without teaching us how to do them My question is... An IV is running by gravity at a rate of 11gtt/min. Assuming the drop factor of the drip chamber is 15gtt/mL, how long will it take a 500mL IV bag to drain completely?