Common Medications

Big task considering it could be virtually every med as there are many more MD's prescribing on the floors (vs. ED). I would be sure to impress on the student that your will ALWAYS encounter a med you do not remember or recognize. So, be sure to know how to access resources. And how to know if drugs are IV compatible. And what to know about IV fluids (hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic especially).

I agree with the above... there's always going to be a new medicine that you don't know, and you need to know how to look it up... some of the drugs I give commonly are
Lasix
Colace
Digoxin
Flagyl
Ambien
Lopressor
Lisinopril
K-dur
I could go on for a while, but I guess this all depends on the types of patients on the floor... It might help to ask one of the nurses on the floor or the nurse manager... In school we had to do standard drug cards for certain drugs, and it always seemed that the patients didn't take those drugs...