PEDI nurses HELP!!!!!

Published Mar 5, 2007

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Specializes in ER/ OR/ PACU and now Occupational Health.

I really need help for my PEDI final I am trying to distinguish between Solumedrol and Prednisone. With nursing implementation and side effects that is. I know Prednisone is like for long term therapy, and Solumedrol is for shorter term but is there anything else any of you know about that can help me distinguish these two drugs? They look pretty close to being the same on the drug cards.

Oh yeah and if any of you just feel like really helping an anxiety ridden student nurse that has studied about 24 hours in the last 2 days, you could give me hints on common nursing implementations and side effects of :

Albuterol

Ventolin

Zyvox

and

primidone/Mysoline

Out of the 20 drugs we have these are the hardest for me to either distinguigh between or remember.

THANK YOU.THANK YOU. THANK YOU.