Best way to study pharmacology ...help ....please!!!!

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I want to know any tips to study pharmacology....its very stress for my...thankyou to everybody:heartbeat:bow:

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Same way that you did for school, things are not going to be any different on the exam than what you covered in school.

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yes but my questions is due to there are many ...many meds and I'm having some problems with that...thankyou

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read saunders comprehensive book, its has a lot of medications...

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ok thankyou...thats what i'm doing now...:nuke:

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well thats good.saunders just know the prefixes and classify them, know the common side effects of that classified drugs...RANDOM FACTS thread has it, its very helpful..

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I understand that there are many meds, but you have gotten thru school learning them. You just need to review them the same way that you did in your program. There is nothing tricky about remembering the meds, if you get any on the exam, chances are that you have not even seen them before.

I would not spend alot of time on the meds for this very reason.

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I did my best to remember the endings of common drugs...like Beta Blockers typically in LOL. Calcium channel blockers end in PINE. Steroids often end in SONE, etc. I read somewhere that there are 200,000+ medications out there, so knowing all of them is not practical. Know your NSAIDs, common Narcotics, diuretics, digoxin-maybe just more of the common drugs you've seen during clinical.

Spend more time on stuff you have more control over, like infection control (had lots of those), priority, delegation etc. The NCLEX knows you aren't going to know all the drugs.

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I agree but my ques. is don't you need to get a passing grade fro the pharmacology section?

I did my best to remember the endings of common drugs...like Beta Blockers typically in LOL. Calcium channel blockers end in PINE. Steroids often end in SONE, etc. I read somewhere that there are 200,000+ medications out there, so knowing all of them is not practical. Know your NSAIDs, common Narcotics, diuretics, digoxin-maybe just more of the common drugs you've seen during clinical.

Spend more time on stuff you have more control over, like infection control (had lots of those), priority, delegation etc. The NCLEX knows you aren't going to know all the drugs.

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I think-but its more than that. I mean, I believe that part of the pharm section includes administering and management than just straightforward memorization of medications. For example, you may have a question about administering K+ and safety. I did have a couple of med questions where I didn't recognize the med, and I just did the best I could with ruling out potentially wrong answers.

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