Pre-made Drug Cards??

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Specializes in ICU and EMS.

Can anyone highly recommend specific pre-made drug cards (or warn against any)? I'd like to hear your input before I spend my money.

Thanks!!

EMSnut

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Specializes in LTC, Nursing Management, WCC.

I used these. http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780323052207

They seem ok... but I actually went back to a drug book. For me using a nursing drug book is faster. I might actually take my cards back out and see what they all have. I really used the cards for 2 clinical class periods and packed them away. It was a pain having to file through all those cards, finding the drugs, making sure I didn't lose the cards and then refile them again.

But I do know that the content on the cards was quite good. :)

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We were forced to buy them so that we wouldn't have to write them all out but the instructors didn't like our being relieved of hours of nonsense work and kept making us write them out anyway.

Buy a good drug guide. There was no advantage to the cards.

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Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.

Yeah our school made us buy those drug cards, but i could not manage them all. The book was quicker for me and besides our instructors wanted it done that way.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI.

Make sure that you are allowed to use them for school. A group of us got went a got sets of them to use for clinicals as our drug cards that we have to carry and our instrustors told us that they were nice to have but any work that we turned in using them would be counted against us because they are not the required text for the course.

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Our program had 10 drug cards due a week, and it doesnt seem to helpful.

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