Any easy way to study PHARM for NCLEX??

[vcannon]

Ugh! I am taking my NCLEX on 6/17/05. I have been doing my practice questions with Kaplan and Saunders. Is there any easy way to try and remember all the drug names?? Pharm is by biggest weakness and I am scared that I am going to get all Pharm questions on my NCLEX.

Any help would be appreciated!!

[christvs, DNP, RN, NP]

Ugh! I am taking my NCLEX on 6/17/05. I have been doing my practice questions with Kaplan and Saunders. Is there any easy way to try and remember all the drug names?? Pharm is by biggest weakness and I am scared that I am going to get all Pharm questions on my NCLEX.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Hello! I'm studying to take NCLEX on July 1 and I've been using Saunders and other books (Kaplan, Lippincott, Incredibly Easy, etc..) Do you have Saunders "Strategies for Success?" It's a thin book with a blue and green cover. On page 151 there is a section called "commonalities in medication names.' Basically, this section tells you all the most common med classes and how to recognize drugs in that class: for instance, histamine receptor antagonists mostly end in -dine, antiviral meds usually have "vir" in their names, etc. I found it very helpful! Also, I just try to go through every practice question on meds I can get my hands on! Hope this helps! :)

-Christine