by abcdwakwak

Hi there, I'm very weak with my pharma and want to know the average med question people get in taking NCLEX-RN and what were those?

Re: How many med questions did you get?

I haven't taken the test yet, so I can't tell you, but I bet I can give you the response you're going to get and save you and others a lot of time. "We can't tell you that, it would be test compromise."

Re: How many med questions did you get?

You can't tell. Some people get few pharm questions,some get tons of meds.
I am also weak in Pharm.It was my major concern before the exam. What i did, 2-4 days before the exam, i answered pharm questions from kaplan and saunders. then i read pharm section of kaplan course book. I focused on common meds. Because for me they are easy to remember or recognize. I cannot memorize meds, they get out of my head easily.I thought if i'll be given common meds and unfamiliar meds in the choices, at least i have idea in some of the choices. It would help me to eliminate. That's what i did,for me it worked. I passed! however,if all of the meds in the choices are unfamiliar, it would be a problem.. Goodluck to you! Always pray..

Olive, BSN,RN

Re: How many med questions did you get?

Minumum question!

Re: How many med questions did you get?

4 MEDICATION!!

Re: How many med questions did you get?

I only got a couple. I am still awaiting the results of my NCLEX exam (took it last Friday).

I also have a problem just memorizing a list of drugs. My strategy was to focus on the drug classes and then choose only the most common drugs that we learned within those classes. I didn't focus on the drug names that I never heard of. I figured that with an understanding of the basics, as well as common suffixes within each class, that I'd have enough knowledge to at least guess well.

I also memorized common side effects or important facts for certain drugs (cough for ACE inhibitors, neuroleptic syndrome with antipsychotics, serotonin syndrome with SSRIs, EPS symptoms and tardive dyskinesia with phenothiazines, what drugs to avoid taking grapefruit juice or antacids with, avoiding tyramine foods with MAOIs and anti-migraines, no milk with tetracyclines, taking pulse before Digoxin, drugs that turn body secretions a different color such as sulfazalazine (orange), triamterine (blue-green), isoniazid (brown)... stuff like that). I also made sure that I knew the therapeutic range for digoxin (0.5 - 2.0 ng) and lithium (0.4 - 1.4) and the signs of toxicity. Then I put that information on flash cards and quizzed myself.

Hope that helps and GOOD LUCK!