Best Way to Learn Medications

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Can someone tell me the best way to learn tons of Medications, side effects etc. without taking a class....I looked for online links, ideas, etc and couldn't find anything.

Barbra

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Because you do not indicate on using PDA will move this to the LPN forum.

One way to learn is make your own cards, make your own notes from reading drug books

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Pay attention to the suffixes at the end of many of the medications. A good resource for that is Delmar's Comprehensive Review for NCLEX- LPN (or RN). A brief example of that is: betablockers end in 'olol', ace inhibitors end in 'pril'. Also, break up the medications in catagories. The book I mentioned will go into that in their pharmacology section.

Also, I posted something along these lines in the NCLEX forum on learning meds.

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Specializes in Hospice.

I love pagandeva and her book suggestions. :) Thanks!

My husband doesn't like it -- I've opened an Amazon credit card just for books recommended by this site.. LOL

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