How many drugs to memorize???

decartes · Jul 3, 2007

When are you scheduled to take the NCLEX? In any case, I suggest doing questions and reviewing rationales (both wrong and right). By doing this, you'll either be reinforcing understood content or acquiring new knowledge. Do ALL of the Q-trainer questions as indicated and start around the time you're scheduled to take the test. In doing this, your body and mind will become accustomed to test day conditions and you will also be prepared for the marathon (265 questions) should you need it.

NHSbaseball32 · Jul 3, 2007

Pharm was a soo soo area for me. Everyone told me not to stress out about pharm. There will be drugs on the test that you will have no freaking clue to what the drug is. A lot of them will not have the prefix or sufix that we tend to know them by. My advice would be to look at other stuff and if you get a pharm question: just take some deep breaths, and take your best educated answer. Thanks what I did, and it worked :) Just as long as you are familiar with your more common drugs, you will be fine

ORNURSETOBE · Jul 3, 2007

I personally did not finish the question trainers. I gave up at test 5. I suggest working on the pharmacology section of Qbank. You would be surprised at the knowedge that you will gain from your pharm that way. I had plenty of pharm on my nclex, but it was not hard pharm. IV's is considered pharm as well. I had a couple of those questions. I did not have insulin at all. The medications that I reviewed were not on there. They were much easier. I do suggest looking at the herbs. I had one herb question. If you are doing that well on the tests, put your focus on your weak areas. Endocrine system is a very easy system to remember. I saw alot of SIADH, DI, Addison, and Cushings on Kaplan questions. Look at your Saunders and do strictly Endocrine questions. That will help you with a nice review. That is what I did for Maternity. I spent 1 week reviewing maternity because that was my weak subject and I probably had 5 maternity questions on the Nclex.

Also remember to learn your meds for endocrine and what could happen to that patient if they get to much or not enough medication.

pagandeva2000, LPN · Jul 3, 2007

Hard to say because many people get drugs that they do not recognize. I had 10 drugs, did not recognize 4 of the, and out of the 4, I took one educated guess in the right direction because when I got home and checked, I guessed right. Break them up in classifications, look at suffixes and pray for the best. Sad to say, but, that is the usual deal. And, it seems that that is cool with NCLEX because many of us passed and had no clue what those drugs were.