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I mean, I knew the major ones like digoxin and insulin and morphine and stuff like that, and I had studied the pharmacology chapter in the NCLEX review book, but it totally didn't stick with me at all. But with the pharm questions I got, one I had never heard of and completely had to guess (it was what time of day do you teach the patient to take it), one I had heard of but still had no idea what the answer was and had to guess, and a couple that I had never heard of but could figure out with the rest of the info. I think I had 5 pharm out of 75 total. I can't even remember what the drugs were (they were so obscure) and it was just on Friday that I took it. I would say study it, but don't be discouraged that you can't remember most of it. Good luck.
To everybody who have passed NCLEX.How well did you know pharmacology? I don't even try much to remember all this staff,i can't remember even names.But questions ask for side effects, wether take in it with meals or not and so on.Some pharm cathegories have the same endings, but most of them don't.
You have to know the basic meds even though there may be a lot of them, dig,hep, psych meds, gi meds, neuro meds, insulin, and their side effects/adverse rxn
I went mad trying to learn pharmacology, pretty much tried to learn everything but stuff just wouldn't stay in my head!
Then I decided to learn by group rather than individual meds. What a difference! Most meds have clue endings as to which group they come from so it's easy to place them e.eg. "pril" for ACE inhibitors & "lol" for beta blockers. It all started to make much more sense & was easier to learn.
Anyway, LOL I hardly had any pharmacology questions in the actual exam, those I did have were nearly all "tick all that apply" so many of them probably didn't even count!
Still I'm now the most knowledgeable nurse on my ward in the UK when it comes to drugs!
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To everybody who have passed NCLEX.
How well did you know pharmacology? I don't even try much to remember all this staff,i can't remember even names.But questions ask for side effects, wether take in it with meals or not and so on.Some pharm cathegories have the same endings, but most of them don't.