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NCLEX medication

Hi everyone! My friend took the NCLEX a week ago in MA, and he told me in the test only generic names were given, not the brand name. I always thought both of the names will be given.

I am really bad at pharmacology. If it is true, i really feel hopeless... :(

Anyone took the exam recently and remember the situation? Is that true? thanks!

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Can anyone help me to answer this question please? Thanks

This has been asked several times, they can ask you either or both

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You are responsible for knowing both. Just like you had to do for nursing school. Either generic or trade name can be used in a question.

I suggest that you spend extra time on the drugs, the exam will focus on your weakness. It has been known to happen.

And this is one of the most important parts of nursing now as well. Medications can easily kill a patient.

I just took mine on Tues in Mass and both names were listed.

there are thousands of drug used in medicine, IS there way which can we know that one need to know at LEAST these drug to sit for NCLEX,

You can not know all the drugs but look for prefixes like lol, cillin, pine etc. Like I said there are a few threads and positive there is one that lists prefixes just try looking for them the search at the top is good and use Pharmacology as keyword and see what comes up

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Any medication can be on your exam and there is absolutely no way to know what is going to be there. Same way that you are not going to know each and every medication that your patients are on.

Know and understand all that you covered in school and you should be fine.

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I just took mine on Tues in Mass and both names were listed.

The exam is national and you would be getting the same questions no matter which state that you tested for if you wrote the exam on the same day. The questions are given to you based on how you answered the previous questions.

It does not care which state or where you wrote the exam.

I took the NCLEX recently, and both names were listed. To be honest, it didn't matter much. I had 15 medication questions, and I had only ever heard of a couple of them, and I couldn't figure out what drug class they were based on the names.

I still passed, though. :)

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When I took the exam only generic names were used and our school instructors warned us about this. However, now the current testing strategy is to use both generic and trade names.

I just took my test on Wednesday. I am not the greatest at remember all the drugs either and I made sure to know the big ones like digoxin, beta blockers, ACE, Ca Channel blockers..etc... I focused on the prils and the lols etc...I saw many,many drugs on the test I didn't know but I was able to use the prefixes to figure out what I would do...by the way I found out today I passed. Good luck and don't let yourself get overwhelmed.

Also from what I remember I believe both trade and generic names were used.

When I took NCLEX I couldn't tell by the names what classifications the meds were and had questions like "What education would you provide the patient taking XYZ medication?" and the answers were things like "Take with food", "Take on an empty stomach", "Take at night", "Take in the morning". Honestly, I guessed.

I passed ;)

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