by zuzi Premium Member

Hi all! I have a trouble related to remember all lab values and therapeutic dose range for medication (NCLEX exam). They are so many and also each of them is: for infants, for children, for women, for man, …..
Please, if one of you deal with them and may be found a strategy or a memo strategy , please give me a hand.

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

HI, I took the NCLEX in June and the only way I found to remember lab values and therapeutic drug levels was to use note cards and do them over and over again. The NCLEX will not ask you in great detail about the correct dose for an infant, child, male or female, just learn the major therapeutic levels of medications and your important labs (e.g H/H, BUN, Creat and so on). Hope this helps!

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

Thats exactly what I did, I made my own drug card, and lab values card, all the best to you

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

I had the same problem (still do with pharm r/t all the different meds out there). I googled normal lab values, found several different lists and made an 'average' that was easy to remember for me so that I would recognize something out of the norm on the test (i.e. Ph is constant 7.35-7.45 so... PaCO2 35-45; Hct 35-45; Na+ 135-145 etc. Some are actual other's I've averaged out, but all allow me to see when a lab is off. Usually knowing the 'general range' will let you 'see' the abnormal result. For the NCLEX it allowed me to use the process of elimination. See the one's I know are right, keep or remove depending on what the question is asking. It truly helped me!

Hope that helps. I am currently working on trying to figure out what meds I should really focus on. I just wish the NCLEX would tell us 'why' someone is on a med every time or list the meds as ACE inhibitors or Beta Blockers instead of just giving the name of the med in the question as it seems to like to do. That would certainly help!

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

This is how I remembered them....kinda goofy...

Potassiom....3.5 - 5.0 Number of bananas I eat a day

Chloride.....70 - 110 Reminds me of chlorine in a swimming pool....on a hot 70-110 degree day

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

Originally Posted by Futurelove

This is how I remembered them....kinda goofy...

Potassiom....3.5 - 5.0 Number of bananas I eat a day

Chloride.....70 - 110 Reminds me of chlorine in a swimming pool....on a hot 70-110 degree day

That's funny! I like that...

rags

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

what i did was reread my MEDS, Lab Values and Doses before I go to bed and did that for a week and It really helped me remember. Also, I printed out a page full of normal values.

Re: NCLEX lab values, therapeutic dose medication

thanks