DO THIS to pass your dose calc exams!

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We are talking about dosage calculation. So we are. Yes. Who just took it? Who is going to take it? Like within the next week or so.

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Jen. I have my exam tomorrow. Awesome.

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What are your questions? Jen, do you have any questions? Are you good?

Yeah. Those count questions, you guys. So we are talking about dose calc questions.

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From kc. Kansas City. I'm assuming Orlando.

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Wow. Hi, guys. Nice of you to join us. Happy hump day.

My dose calc exam is Friday. Hi, Christiana. Nice to see you again. Jersey. Do you just call it Jersey? Is that a thing? That's a thing.

Chef. Chef. Chef. Nurse. Chef Nurse. So are you a chef in.

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Your cheat sheet. Are incredible.

Double trouble to be a chef. Well, guys. And a nurse.

Jersey.

That's my goal in life.

We are in the US of A.

Guys, we are in the US of the A.

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Nars Strawberry. Hello. Dose calc exam next week, Massachusetts.

All right. How are you guys on YouTube? When are your dose calc exams? Or did you guys already take that?

Did you already take it?

Yes. I'm sure there are some people out there that have taken it already. And how did you do?

How did you do? Did you pay pass? Is it awesome?

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If you're following our videos on YouTube or in our membership community, you definitely pass. That is.

Jen. I'm taking my exam through F.A. davis Advantage.

Yep. So, F.A. davis. Because Matthew doesn't know.

I do not know. I am Not a nurse, guys. Not a nurse. Christina is the nurse right over here.

He's just here for the comedic value. I am F.A. davis is who writes like the textbooks, a lot of them. So I think actually the drug guide. The Davis drug guide is F.A. davis. It's not the Davis drug guide. It's the Davis's drug guide. And I always get that wrong.

It belongs to Davis. So it's Davis's.

It's Davis's. You are a chef and a registered nurse. Come on.

About to take your nclex. Awesome.

You're pulling my leg. That's great. That is the best duo I have ever heard of. To be a chef and a nurse, that is my goal in life. That is my new goal in life. I have a lot of goals, but that is my new goal. Thank you for that awesome past dose calc. Thanks for all you do. I'm so glad. Elise. Good job. Tips for ob. Hey, we actually just talked about that on Monday. So go back to the live on YouTube. Because we talked about OB and PEDs and by.

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Mia on YouTube just said that we are giving her Cali vibes.

I saw yet.

Do we look like we're from California? California is absolutely not a place I think I would ever live.

We are.

We are not in California.

Good guess though.

Good guess though. We'll play that game.

We can continue playing.

I suppose Elsevier makes a bunch of textbooks. We use those as well as F.A. davis. Yeah. So Elsevier and F. Elsevierba and F.A. davis. I think maybe. Mia, Are you just saying that I look so fancy that I could be in California? Like, do I look so fancy? That makes me happy.

Actually, Melanie, I'm taking mine on the 12th. All right. All right.

So you have a little bit of time.

So good. I'm super nervous. No need to be nervous. That is why you're here. Stick around. We are going to go through the things you need to know.

Yes, absolutely.

The things you need to know.

Nieu sis. I seem so fancy. See, I really appreciate that, Nia. That actually. That makes me really happy. Thank you. Hi From Boston. Hey, Matthew's from Boston.

I was born in Bostonia.

In Bostonia. He thinks he's funny.

I. I think I am.

I passed my nclex. Woohoo, sweetheart. Awesome. That's literally handled. I wasn't calling you sweetheart, but that's your handle.

Matthias. I'm guessing you're live from Washing.

Oh, Washington is a nice place. That is amazing.

I live in Dorchester. Nice. Rachel. So funny story and then we'll get into this. We used to breed little Boston terriers when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I just wanted to say that saying. But all of our Boston terrier puppies we named after cities in Massachusetts, so we had a Dorchester.

That's funny.

So that's great. I always wanted the accent as well, but we left too early and I did not get the accent.

Matthew and I have said that if we were going to live anywhere else, it would be Ireland outside of the us.

Yes, Ireland is nice.

I would like to move.

Anyone joining us from Ireland?

Anyone in Ireland?

Anyone?

Yeah, I don't think they do nclex there. So maybe we from there. I don't know. Hello friends.

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I see your Instagram handles. You guys. I'm sorry, I can't do that.

Let's get to it.

Washington is beautiful. I agree.

How to do the dose calcs.

All right, I have a few tips for you guys. The first one that is really, really important is to know your dose calc conversions. Now I know that seems really simplistic, but it is a huge problem because nursing students oftentimes you just, you don't, you don't know all of them. Just to say it bluntly, your. Your exam is going to throw anything and everything at you. And it's just that can be really, really hard to know kind of what's coming at you. Right? Like who. A lot of you have taken your doscal exam already. So like what was your experience with that? Did they throw anything and everything at you? Because I bet that they did. You were tested on so much stuff. Everything from PO meds, tablets, IVs, you know, IV pumps, drop rate, drip rates, heparin, insulin, pediatric calculations. Mark, for Joe's. Thank you. Yes. Everything. They can throw anything at you on these dose calc exams. And so you have to be prepared. So dose count conversions. You got to know them. Okay, so. And all of them. So you can't just know like the milligram ones. Okay. You have to know all of them. So the one that I always. Okay, there's actually two There's. There's two dose count conversions that oftentimes nursing students forget, and it's that 2.2 pounds is 1 kilogram. So 1 kilogram is 2.2 pounds.

So wait a minute. You're telling me that I cannot just study the English system and forget about the metric system? Because the metric system.

This is why we want to move to Ireland.

I don't know metric, because I don't need to.

They do it better there.

Yeah.

So one kilogram, apparently.

I need to know that.

All right, you need to know it, my friends. Yep. Yeah. Speed limits and miles per hour. Not gonna help you. And then one grain. So here's a really tricky one, a really tricky one that they love to test you on a nursing school, but nursing students just don't know because, you guys, it's never used, ever. Like, you will never see this on the floor, but they still test you on it. So it's one of those weird ones. Grains. Okay. One grain. Grain is 65 milligrams. Perhaps you didn't know that, but you need to for your dose calc exam. So. Okay, I'm gonna say it again. One grain. One grain is 65 milligrams. All right. You've got to know these things. So 1 kilogram. 2.2. Oops. 2.2 pounds. Anyway, we have. You've got to know these conversions. So all of your conversions. Actually, we have a cheat sheet on this that'll make it easier because I'm not going to go through all the flashcards on. So if you can come on to my Instagram, actually go onto Instagram and DM me on Instagram. Okay. And just let me know that you want the dose cop cheat sheet, and I will send it to you. Okay. So Instagram, I'm nursing sos. That'll just be easy.

And they don't. That way they don't give you that during the exam.

Of course not, because that would be too easy.

Do they expect you to know all the abbreviations as well?

Of course.

Yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, yeah. I should have been clear on that.

Yeah.

That's why Matthew asks the question.

So it actually doesn't say milligrams out.

It'S mg and you just CG for micrograms. Yeah. Milligrams, micrograms. Gram, GM or G. Yeah. So you have to know all of those, so. Well, I will point it out. Now, these are all in our dose calc box. So we have a dose calc box with all of these flashcards in here for you so all the conversion flashcards, all of this is inside our dose calc box. So, you know, don't worry, we've got it all for you if you grab that box. I don't have Instagram. How can I get it? Matthew on YouTube. It's a dose calc, I believe. Yeah, so. Nursingschoolofsuccess.com doscalc that'll get you there. Melanie, can you try that link for us, please, just to make sure you don't get our, you know, error page? Just make sure it should. It should take you to the cheat sheet if we have the right URL. Or it might have, like a hyphen.

In there, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

Sure that's the right.

Pretty sure that's it.

Nursingschoolofsuccess.com doscalc all right, so tip number.

One is definitely know your conversion conversions forward and backward, all of inside and out.

I mean, Matthew made a really good point that you do have to know the abbreviations are. What are the acronyms or abbreviations? Yeah. Okay, so he's better. Micrograms, milligrams. So gr. You guys, anytime you see gr, it's great. Okay, so gr, That's. That's one that just. You will get tripped up on your exam if you are not familiar with it. The first is probably actually the second dose calc exam that I took in nursing school. We had grains on there, and I was like, what in the world is this? I have no idea. I had never even heard of it before.

So.

So grain one grain gr or grain 65 milligrams? Okay. Michelle. Hey, nice to see you again.

Are you allowed.

Are you allowed a calculator during the dose calc exam? So. Yes, but this is a. Yes, but it depends on your school, so typically you are. But I just heard just a few weeks ago, I was messaging with a student Dming on Instagram. She is not allowed to use calculators in her school. And I had her double check this with her school. Like, are you for real? I've never heard of this before. And she said, yeah, absolutely. Like, she double checked with her school. She was not allowed to use calculators, which to me is insane, because I am not a let's just do division and multiplication by hand kind of person. That is not me. So. So check with your school. I will say that. But also just to put you at peace, you know, that is very rare. I've never, literally never heard of that before. That was just one person. But I Recommend that you check with your school. I guess if they make the questions pretty easy, then I suppose so, yeah.

I'd say definitely check with your school. And also just check with your school to make sure. Like, what kind? Right. Like everyone nowadays has calculators on their phones or on their different devices and things. But you can't use that. Right. Can you use a graphing calculator that I used to play video games on instead?

I don't know. No, it's usually the ones that they have provided for you. So in school, you know, when you take. When you. You know, when you take your exams, you get usually a whiteboard, a whiteboard marker, a calculator that come in those.

Little caddies and it just has like the little, little simple calculator.

Those are awesome. Yeah, with like the. The.

The sliders.

Yeah, the sliders, yeah. Yeah.

Apparently in Nigeria, calculators are not allowed, so calculator is bad in Nigeria. Thanks.

Yeah, thanks, chef. Do they have the calculator application equipped on the test? Some schools do that. Mine was a calculator. And the application on the test.

Yes, I guess, if it's fully online or fully on the computer. Right, Like a little calculator. Yep.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely, Cristiana. And it depends on what your school does and the capabilities, like technology capabilities of your school. I've still heard from nursing students who take written tests, like on paper, like 20 years ago paper, you know, like Scantrons, who. Remember Scantrons here.

Oh, yeah. Fill in the bubbles.

Yep. So nursing schools still do that. I hear about them sometimes. Most of them are though online. So it depends that I mean all that to say that check with your school just to make sure. But really, you really should be able to use a calculator, apparently, unless you are in Nigeria. I am sorry about that. That is terrible.

Melanie. We do hiper tests. Awesome.

Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, it's few and far between, Melanie, but it does happen. Melanie, where are you? Did you tell us where you were? Where are you located? Can you tell us? Because I'm curious where you still do paper tests. Are you in the U.S. that's interesting too.

Actually, I do have a question on that. Because, like, if you do New Jersey, if you're proctored or something, or if you take your test on paper, do you have to hand it, like you're doing like math and you're doing it on like scrap paper or whatever? Do you have to hand it all in? You have to hand in all your. Your scrap paper as well.

Well, I guess for the dose calc exam maybe our school did. I do, I do recall doing one dose cal exam by hand. One of them, I remember one of them but the other ones I think were online. So Melanie, are your regular exams online too? And maybe just the dose calc1 is on paper now I'm super curious about this. Okay. How many of y' all have paper tests? Tell me now I'm on a paper test kick. I need to figure this out because you never know. It's interesting. So for our dose calc exam, I do recall one exam being on paper. That is, you know, most of them though are online, so.

Okay. Yeah, that's what I thought. Melanie. So not a lot of scrap paper but you do it on the paper and of course you pass in your.

Paper and all exams are on paper.

I just remember again, not a nurse but I was taking an exam for another something else and we could have scrap paper but like we have to turn everything in so that they could just make sure I guess or see. I don't know. It was weird. They also had me like roll up my sleeves and stuff before going into proctor exam and like lifting my mouth and stuff. It was, it was strange.

Yeah. I mean the NCLEX will do similar things. I don't know if they'll go like that crazy. But you know, you can't take anything in obviously and nursing exams are going to mimic that as close as possible because obviously you want to take your nclex so that's what they're prepping you for.

What is the easiest way to remember Milliliter. Milliliter per hour when you have medication added to the calculation. Okay, so let's just continue going on the tips on how to do dose calc because I'm assuming that you're going to go into how to solve those health problems next. So let's go ahead and do that and then hopefully Kidian stick around. Hopefully that will answer your question.

And Kadian, actually we have on YouTube a whole video on like. Well we have a couple of iv. I'm trying to remember what the ones we did are for dose coccies. We have a whole dose cock series on YouTube. So check it out. We have a couple on IV. Don't we have a couple on.

We have quite a few on YouTube.

We have pediatric ones for sure.

Working through dose top problems. So definitely if you're still nervous after this, go ahead and check those out. We, we have a lot of resources in our membership community. There's A whole dose. Everything's in the members, everything is in the membership community. We also have a physical dose calc box. This is where all the materials are coming from that Christina's going through. So if you're interested in that, go ahead and check out our store, nursing sos.com shop. Those are really good because they're actual physical material. Physical workbooks that show how the work is done too. So we'll go over some high level stuff here. But if you definitely need more practice, take a look at that.

Yes.

So, Christiana, just to wrap things up, my tests are online, but we were allowed scrap paper that we have to turn in. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Kind of like what I did for my test. So.

So in. So, Kadian, on YouTube, what you're going to be looking for is like the IV videos that we have on YouTube. But I want to point out that in the dosage calculation workbook inside of our box on starting on page seven, we have a bunch of IV calculations. So, you know. Yeah. Milliliters per hour. Like how many mils per hour will you run? That's like an IV point pump question. So that is. And you know, how long will it take for things to infuse? How many drops per minute will the patient receive? How many milliliters per hour will the IV pump run at? Like, these are all IV problems. We have all of them in here. A bunch of practice problems for you inside this workbook inside the dose calc box. So check it out if you're interested. And then we also have another workbook. So there's two workbooks you get inside the dose calc box. One is just a whole bunch of practice problems written out. So they look like this, they're just written out. And then the next one is actually labels. So we kind of train you to read medication labels, which is so nice. So you will be a lot more prepared for your dose calculation exam because your exam will also give you labels as well. Cool.

Latia. My AP class exams were on Scantrons. I'm in Virginia. I am sorry. Did you have to use a number two pencil?

So was mine.

Did they loosen up on the whole number two pencil and not number three or not pens or not red or blue?

No, they gotta be number two. What is up with the number twos? I don't know. They always scare you about that too. It's like, well, you're gonna fail it if you don't use a number two pencil.

Fill in the bubbles and make sure you know Got outside the line. Yes, definitely number two.

Definitely number two. Yeah, my amp was on Scantrons as well. Funny, funny. So, Kadian, definitely check out those videos on YouTube. But let's go through it really quickly, friends. Y' all are gonna get mad at me. Okay, you ready? You're ready to get mad at Christina? Please don't listen to your nursing instructors and use formulas. I said it. I'm gonna say it again. Don't use formulas, please. So so many nursing students, you get into nursing school and then your instructors give you a list of formulas to memorize. I don't know what that's about. And then you go take your exam and here's what happens. You either forget how to use the formula, you forget what you learned, what you memorized, or you can't figure out what formula to use, where. For which problem, which formula do you use? Do you use this one or this one or this one or this one for this problem, or you use the right formula, but it still doesn't work to answer the question.

Christiana knows.

Christiana, you have the answer, my friend.

You're ahead of the game.

Yep. Preach it, my friend. Dimensional analysis. Let me introduce you to dimensional analysis, my friends. So it's. It's a big fancy word, but it really means like the simplest way to do doe scalc. So don't freak out when I say dimensional analysis. It's a big fancy word. It's very, very simple. Okay. Very, very simple. Matthew scrolling.

I'm just scrolling up because I just want to shout out to rg. As Mer said, I'm so. I'm so nervous during exams. My campus has capstone to transition and stuff for me. I feel that can you motivate me to success? So I just wanted to shout you out and say this is the motivation right here, is that you do need to work at it, but there are easier ways to do things. We want to make sure that you get things done the easiest way as possible, most efficient way. So for dose calc specifically, definitely use dimensional analysis. Listen to Christina and what she goes through.

Let's go.

And hopefully that will motivate you. So There you go.

100% you, Melanie. I use desire ever have. That's a formula, my friend. Please stop. So, Melanie, this is the problem. Desired over have is a formula. And it works to an extent. When you get into nursing school, let's say you have like a PO medication or it's just like a basic IV problem or a tablet problem. And it's very simple. You can Just do desired over half and it will give you the answer. But, Melanie, what happens when you get into Med Surg and now you have heparin calculations that not only have one conversion, but now have two or three conversions, then what?

Yeah, Melanie, I find everything else so hard. Yes, you will.

Yes, you will definitely find everything else so hard. When you're using desire over half, when you get to OB and try to do Pitocin calculations, desired over have does not work. When you try to do a lot of IV things, even with a milliliter per hour or how much is left over. And all of these things desired over have will fail you. The formulas will fail you. And it's not. It's. It's not anything you're doing wrong. It's the formula. It does not work. So I don't understand you guys. Okay, this is Christina on her soapbox. I don't understand why nursing schools do not teach you dimensional analysis. It is frustrating to me because it's like they just. I. I don't know. I don't know why they should really be teaching you this. So you have to understand dimensional analysis, Melody, because I want you to be successful when you get into Med Surg obviously, when you have heparin calculations and insulin calculations and pitocin calculations and all of these things to know. Dimensional analysis is how you're going to be successful in dose calc, moving forward in your program. When the formulas fail you, Like I said before, when you get to an exam and you're thinking of all your formulas and you're like, I don't know which one to use, or you try to use one and it just doesn't work. It will break. The formulas break during your exam. That is not when you want your formulas to break. Because that exam, you've got to pass it, right? So in dimensional analysis, all you have to do is put the numbers in the right place and line up the units. That's it. There is like genuinely no thinking, my friends. There is no thinking. You start with what you need, what is the unit that you need to end up with? And then you. Then you go back here. So that's need over here. So write it on the right hand side of your paper and then on the left side write the order. What did the doctor or the prescriber order? And then what are the conversions? What conversions do you have? So need order and have. All you have to do is multiply across the top, multiply across the bottom and divide. Can you do that? That's it. So it's not like a formula. You have to remember. It's not anything like that. What unit do you need to end up with? What are they asking you for? So, Kadian, you said on YouTube, milliliters per hour. So let's say for example, you need milliliters over hour. That's what you would literally put here. Milliliters hour. That's it. And then over here you would put the order. Okay, what did the doctor order now you didn't give me a whole practice problem, so I'm just going to put, you know, just. We'll just put it. So what did the doctor order here? You would put those units there with the number. And then what conversions do you need to get from order to need conversions? Go in the middle and then all you have to do, multiply across the top, multiply across the bottom, divide. That's it. My friends, dimensional analysis is the way to pass your dose calc exam in nursing school. I am telling you two things that really bother me about nursing school. I do not understand why they don't teach dose calc this way. I don't understand why they keep beating the formula method into your brain and then it will just break when you get further in your program. That doesn't make sense to me. So you want to do this first. The second thing that bothers me about nursing schools is how they teach you pharmacology. But that's a topic for another day. Soapbox for another day. So you have to make sure that you know dimensional analysis. Christiana, thank you. You are awesome.

Melanie, I know it can seem a little confusing when first you're starting off and also at first when you're used to formulas and you're. When you're used to just. Just following a prescribed thing to do instead of like plugging in the numbers and working through dimensional analysis. But trust us that once you get used to dimensional analysis, it will work for no matter what kind of dose calc problem you're gonna throw at it. So it's a kind of universal thing. It will work. So put the time in now to get used to it, do the practice problems, do all your problems and slowly work through it that way and get used to how it is. It will get easier the more you use it and it will just work for more things that you're. You're going to throw at it. So it's also just good to practice that it is more critical thinking. So it's. It's practicing your critical thinking a little bit on what conversions you Will need and things like that.

So which you would need to do anyway.

Which you'll need to do anyway.

Yeah, so you just. I mean, this is literally like the formula method. You would have to figure out, okay, what conversion do I do this time? And then save the other ones and then do another conversion on the next problem and the next and the next. And if you have too many, like, it's just going to be so confusing because you have to do the formula multiple times to just get to an answer. Perhaps not even the right answer. Dimensional analysis, though, is straight through. So what do you need to end up with? What's the order that the prescriber ordered? And then what conversions do you have? So the dose couch box, obviously, we walk you through all of that inside the membership community. We have all the videos that walk you through everything. And then on YouTube, though, friends, go to our YouTube channel, type in Nursing SOS Dose Calc. So go to YouTube, type in Nursing SOS Dose calc. Those videos will pop up there. Let me walk you through.

So we, we are having a lot of questions about the dose calc box. Definitely take a look at that. It's nursing sos.comshopmax. you have your exam in 10 days. How long will shipping be? We'll ship them out and they'll be there and as. As soon as possible.

If you buy it, I mean, our shipping is usually like two to three days. If you buy it tonight, I will ship it tomorrow.

Yeah, so get on that. Also, since you guys are awesome and are online right now and watching us live. Go there, go to the shop, add it to your cart. There's a coupon code place area thing that you can put in the shop. Put in live 10. Live 10 to get 10 off.

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And then, yeah, just put that coupon code in, in checkout and you can do that because, yeah, we really want to help you. We really want to get it to you. So it will. It'll be there. We'll ship it out tomorrow. We'll be there in mostly two to three days usually.

So, yeah, usually two to three days max. If you're in New York. I mean, maybe three days, but it shouldn't be much longer. I mean, four at the max. So, yeah, definitely get on that.

Rachel.

I really haven't heard it going longer than that.

Our membership, we did have it open, but it is closed now. So the VIP list is so that you know when membership will open up again. If you're already in our membership, we have a whole Dose Calc course that has even more practice problems. So those are practice problems that are even in addition to the Dose Calc box. So if you want all the complete collection of all the practice problems that we have, the membership, the Dose comp box, and the YouTube videos will get you there. It's just whichever way will help you learn better. There's a lot in the membership, but sometimes people like having the physical workbooks as well.

So that's why we talk about it.

Yes.

Yep.

Andrea, I wish you guys did this yesterday. I took my semester math exam today. Got 7 out of 10, so it wasn't so bad. I have trouble with rounding, so can we. Oh, Rachel, you enrolled last week in the membership.

Yes.

So go to the Dose Talk course, and there are some downloadable workbooks in there, one for each section. So there's a bunch of practice problems in there. These workbooks, the physical workbooks in doscal box, are different than those. So if you go through all of those and still feel that you need more practice exams. Yeah, you can go ahead and order the Dose Calc box as a member. You get 20 off using your member code instead. So don't use LIVE10. Use your membership code if you're a member.

So, yep, 100. I think on Monday, we need to talk about pharmacology because are we gonna talk farm?

Okay, can we wrap up with Andrea's question or not? Question. Sorry, I thought it was a question, but I'm gonna act like it's a question. How to round with Dose calc.

Oh, okay. I have trouble with rounding. All right, so rounding. There are a couple principles that you need to follow when rounding. So let's say two principles. So the first one, when you are doing dimensional analysis, you do not round until the end. So make sure that you put in your numbers here, the order and the have section. You have the units you need to end up with. Put in your numbers here. Once you've put in your numbers, you multiply across the top. You multiply, and then you put that number there, you multiply across the bottom, put that number there. And then you divide those two numbers, and the number you get from dividing, that's the number you round.

So don't round until the end, leave all the decimals intact all the way through your math, your mathematicals, until you get to the very end. Don't round until you just round the final answer.

And then Matthew can Probably say this better than I can because I get tripped up with my fives. But if it's five or greater. How do you say that? The right way. If it's five or greater, you round up. If it's four or lower, you round down. Yes.

Or you. Yeah, yeah, you round down.

You know what I'm saying? So if it's. So those are the two rounding rules. Okay. So the probably the two biggest. Really. So you do not round until the end. You need to make sure that you multiply straight across, multiply straight across and divide and then round the final number. And then if it's five or greater, friends, you round up. If it's four or lower, you round down. Now that can get a little tricky depending on what units they want you. Or not. Sorry, not units, but decimal. So if they want you to round this 10th, if they want you to round to the hundredth. So you do need to check what they're asking you for on the exam because sometimes they will have you round to the hundredth decimal place, which would be 2 after the decimal or the 10th, which would be 1 after the decimal. Or the whole number, which if you have to round to the whole number, then it's like the answer is a whole number. One, two, three. There's no decimal. So that's really. Those are really the two biggest ones. Make sure you round at the end.

Very, very round to the end.

Because you will get the wrong answer if you tried around before that. Which, friends, is why the formula method doesn't work. Like, there are so many reasons. Because with the formula method you have to do it so many times. You have to use that formula so many times. And especially if you're rounding each time, you're going to get the wrong answer. Like it's just guaranteed you are going to end up with the wrong answer. You have to do that multiple times.

So hopefully that helps. If you guys have any more questions.

With rounding, I just don't understand why they don't teach you dimensional analysis in nursing school. They should really do that.

Do dimensional analysis. Yeah. I'm curious why they don't.

They should really teach dimensional analysis.

Max, membership is closed right now, but definitely join the VIP list and you'll be the first ones to know when it opens again. So definitely get on that.

Melanie, walk you through all of this.

Melanie, you also enrolled last week. That is awesome. Congratulations.

We have an entire dose calc course inside the membership community. Check it out.

So here's the other thing too, because Melanie, I know that you Mentioned that dimensional analysis can confuse you. So what you should do is definitely go through the dose calc course, go through the downloadable workbooks, or if you get the dose cup box, go through the dose count problems there. What you do is you work through it. You work through the actual problem. If you're getting tripped up on it, you go ahead and write all that down in the tutor form in the membership and send it to Nicole, who is our nurse that will help you out and guide you through, and she can look through the work that you have and be able to really tell exactly where you might have some confusion. And you keep doing that over and over again until you feel confident that you're doing it right. So that is why the membership linked along with these Source Health workbooks is great, because you can actually show us your work, show us how you got to where you're getting. And Nicole will be really good at finding exactly. Just probably you're rounding too early or just little things here and there that will just make you feel more confident for your test.

Yep, we'll walk you through it. So did you guys know that we have nursing tutors inside the Nursing SS membership community? So when you join, you get access to our tutor form. So, yes, when you get tripped up on a problem, you know, submitted through a tutor form and a nurse on our team. So Nicole will help you out and, you know, walk you through it. It's fantastic. And Max, shout out to you. That is hilarious. 5 and above, give it a shove. 4 and below, stay low. That is hilarious. That is the keeper. Max. I am so using that in the future. That is fantastic. You guys are amazing. Okay, so Monday we're gonna talk about pharmacology.

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