This nutty Chem class that I am taking at my CC, is supposed to be "Chemistry for Allied Health".
As we are approaching the end of the semester, I am starting to look back and think about what I have learned...and I have discovered, that other than dimentional analysis (which I learned in my nursing math class), that the only thing I have learned, is Chemistry calculations...and NOTHING more.
All of our exams, I mean ALL of them, are on vocabulary and Chemistry calculations...nothing regarding how anything works..not one other type of question is ever asked...and for the life of me, I cannot see how this relates in any way to nursing.
where this may come back to bite you , is if you want your BSN....this may not transfer
Oh, the Chemistry class that I am taking does not transfer as a college-credit...it's specifically designed to take the place of high school Chemistry.
I found a BSN program where after I get my RN, the only two additional courses I have to take is Microbiology and Statistics..and that's it. No more Chemistry.
oh my, a bach. in science,(nursing) WITHOUT A SEMESTER OF CHEMISTRY??? would you name that school, i am sure there are a few other students here who would be interested!!
I have to say I have the worst freakin Chemistry teacher in creation. The sad part is he is a Dr. of Chemistry, not an ED Dr of Chemistry. I.E. this brutha can't teach for nothing, uggggggggggggggh!!! I am usually a calm, collected person, but this man makes all his students literally want to attack him. And for stlpauligirl, whenever my teacher tried that mess we would have to get him togather. I have had to tell my teacher about himself plenty of times!!!! Even though a teacher is a position of authority, they are still to give us respect at all times
I wish my chem class was like that.....I think our whole class must have failed because somehow I ended up with a B+ and I know that it must have been a generous curve. When we sat down to take our final I could swear that we didn't cover half of that junk! My mother is an RN and she failed chem her first time around and she laughs because she says in her 30+ years as an RN she has NEVER USED IT!!!!!!:angryfire
My mother is an RN and she failed chem her first time around and she laughs because she says in her 30+ years as an RN she has NEVER USED IT!!!!!!
And she's probably right from actual on-the-job usage, but I guarantee the concepts will come up in nursing school. If had a dollar for each time I heard, "You probably remember this from chemistry...", I could quit school and live off the interest alone, lol!! And I'm only in second semester!! (This applies to A&P and microbiology, too)
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Oh, the Chemistry class that I am taking does not transfer as a college-credit...it's specifically designed to take the place of high school Chemistry.
I found a BSN program where after I get my RN, the only two additional courses I have to take is Microbiology and Statistics..and that's it. No more Chemistry.