NCLEX medication questions?

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For those of you that have taken the NCLEX-RN what kind of medication questions did you have?

I hate the common side effect ones. Any advice?

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I'm so worried about that too. My brain is getting fatigued!

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For those of you that have taken the NCLEX-RN what kind of medication questions did you have?

I hate the common side effect ones. Any advice?

in actual nclex, Drug Contra indications questions is much worst

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I personally didn't study any meds. I did commit to memory the info about dig & lithium tho. They are two biggies.

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I personally didn't study any meds. I did commit to memory the info about dig & lithium tho. They are two biggies.

How confident did you feel about pharm going into the exam?

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I agree with bridg.....know dig, lithium. If u feel u need to study pharm then study by class (beta blockers, antidepressants, etc) just to brush up on side effects.

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How confident did you feel about pharm going into the exam?

I did well in pharm plus I took it my last semester...so it was still a little fresh in my mind. I didn't have many med questions on my NCLEX but everyone's is different.

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I had ONE pharm question, about HMG-CoA...that's it!

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I studied zero pharm. There are just too many drugs and I feel like they always give you obscure ones. I think I had maybe 1-2 drugs questions out of 75 and I had never heard of either of them.

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Specializes in ICU.

I had a ton of med teaching SATA questions... ;)

They were totally ridiculous. There was one that was about the patient understanding the symptoms of the drug, and it was a SATA, and absolutely NONE of the common symptoms I learned about were in the answers. None of them. The drug affected a major electrolyte and none of the major symptoms of that electrolyte imbalance were in the answers, and I studied my s/s of electrolyte imbalances like you wouldn't believe! They also had a SATA dietary teaching questions for a drug I've heard of before and I could tell you what it was for, but I'd never given it, had never seen anyone on it at work, and had never seen anything about dietary teaching related to this drug in any nursing textbook. I knew I passed after I walked out of that room because there is no way the questions they were asking me were minimum competency level.

What I'm trying to say is don't sweat the pharm too hard - know the really basic stuff like dig, coumadin, etc. but if they throw crazy hard pharm questions at you, you are probably passing!

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Hmmm...so THAT's why I felt like I had absolutely NO idea! I had a hard time differentiating the hard vs easy question (for the most part).

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Calivianya so know.which exactly? Coumadin etc ??

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