:) nclex pharmacology !!!

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i my all nurses family, im taking my nclex on octuber , and i think my weakest area is pharmacology... any tips on studying pharmacology for the nclex, what kinds of drugs are in the questions, or what kind of drugs did you get, im very anxious !!!!!!

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Specializes in ASC, Infection Control.

no one can tell you what drugs they were tested on, that's in violation of the confidentiality policy you have to sign. the biggest help you could get on it - study medication suffixes and know what drugs those relate to. then, even if you have no clue what that drug is or never heard of it, if you know the suffix you can determine what the drug is for and then you can figure out what you need to watch for in the patient, how to tell if its effective, etc. worked for me on the PN and RN, i didn't even study specific drugs, just suffixes. for example, -olol is a beta blocker so its for hypertension (think of metoprolol), -vir is antiviral typically for HIV/AIDS (think of Norvir), -azole is proton pump inhibitor so it reduces gastric acid (think of omeprazole). so i'd associate a suffix with a common med to make me remember what its for more easily.

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thank you very much, ill do that, im not good at all in pharm

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