GI medications

[syost]

Hey there, I'm new and so glad to find this place!!!

I have a pharmacology exam on Monday morning (3/7) and it's over upper and lower GI drugs. I did not do as well as I would have liked on the last exam. It brought my previously high grade down quite significantly. I'm studying my lecture transcription and power points, I'm outlining, I'm cross-charting drugs, SE, and Contraindications.

Any other ideas? Any hints on remembering drug names for each type of drug (antiemetic, proton pump inhibitors, IBS/IBD, etc)?

Thanks.

[Armis27]

I never found a shortcut for learning drugs. I knew classmates who came up with rhymes or other mnemonics, but that never worked with me. Flash cards were no help either. Eventually I just stop trying to i find a shortcut. I just sat there and studied them.

The only thing that helped me was sitting there and memorizing the drugs until I could recite everything important from memory. After that I did mental concept maps helped i.e. for this symptom associated with this disease this patient takes this drug which is a blank drug whose action is this and the side effects are that and nursing considerations are this. Then I just worked at it until I had it.

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

I admit that GI drugs are the most problematic for me as well. I can remember them fine for a test, but I never think about them again and end up forgetting what med goes in what class. I know what the various classes and MOAs, but putting the right drug in the right classes eludes me within a week of a test. Repetition is key though. The more classes you do it in the more you'll get with it.