Drug Cards

[Nomijen]

What do you recommend? There are so many out there.

TIA

[semester1kid]

Well - for this round of clinicals, I write out drug cards relating to the patients I've had on a given night. Although I've had one or two nights to the contrary, these patient's meds generally vary enough to keep me busy. When I am stuck due to 'repeats' or lack of meds, I'll resort to looking up meds that I come across in my lecture readings. My patient from last week had an MAR that was 5 pages long...that may get me to Christmas break:D

Last round of clinicals, the instructor gave us a weekly list of meds to look up. During lab last year, they gave us a list of about 15 meds plus all the insulins.

[Nomijen]

So you wrote them out instead of using the premade cards? I suppose that would help me learn them better...

[semester1kid]

So you wrote them out instead of using the premade cards? I suppose that would help me learn them better...

Only the initial lab instructors allow the use of pre made cards; the rest of the instructors required that we write them out - I personally have 'QUICK' 17th Edition Drug Cards from Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. But I do think it sinks in better when you write them out. Once you get the hang of writing down the most pertinent info, they won't take too long to write.