Now on to the medication study part...

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All this studying is kind of driving me crazy... esp. the medication part!! Is there any easy way to remember this???? Not all meds have an ending to them like -cin for anti-infectives...or -azo- for antianxiety...and so on. Then there's all the side-effects with them. And then some medications turn the color of urine orange or red, while other meds can cause toxicity or other side effects. Omg i am freaking out! any way to help this poor girl out?? I'm trying my hardest. I am studying everyday, but man o man o man.....:eek: I feel like i'm in freaking school to get my doctorate degree. ugh. and it's really LPN. what the heck. ? .

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•Drugs with these endings........ usually are in this class

-caine ;local anesthetics

-cillin; antibiotic

-dine ;anti-ulcer ( H2 blocker )

-done; opioid analgesic

-ide; oral hypoglycemics

-lam; antianxiety

-mide ;diuretic

-mycin ;antibiotic

-nium; neuromuscular blocking

-olol; beta blocker

-oxacin ;antibiotic

-pam ;antianxiety

-pril ;ACE inhibitor

-sone ;steroids

-statin ;cholesterol

-vir; antiviral

-zide; diuretic

•-ase = thrombolytic

-azepam = benzodiazepine

-azine = antiemetic; phenothiazide

-azole = proton pump inhibitor, antifungal

-barbital = barbiturate

-coxib (cox 2 enzyme blockers

-cep/-cef = anti-infectives

-caine = anesthetics

-cillin = penicillin

-cycline = antibiotic

-dipine = calcium channel blocker

-floxacin = antibiotic

-ipramine = Tricyclic antidepressant

-ine = reverse transcriptase inhibitors, antihistamines

-kinase = thrombolytics

-lone, pred- = corticosteroid

-mab = monoclonal antibiotics

-micin = antibiotic, aminoglycoside

-navir = protease inhibitor

nitr-, -nitr- = nitrate/vasodilator

-olol = beta antagonist

-oxin = cardiac glycoside

-parin = anticoagulant

-prazole = PPI’s

-phylline = bronchodilator

-pril = ACE inhibitor

-statin = cholesterol lowering agent

-sartan = angiotensin receptor blocker

-sone = glucocorticoid

-stigmine = cholinergics

-terol = Beta 2 Agonist

-thiazide = diuretic

-tidine = antiulcer

-trophin = Pituitary Hormone

-vir = anti-viral, protease inhibitors

-zosin = Alpha 1 Antagonist

-zolam = benzo/sedative

-zine = antihistamine

•ANTICOAGULANTS - ends in parin, rin

THROMBOLYTICS - ends in ase, kinase

ACE INHIBITORS - ends in pril

ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR BLOCKER- ends in sartan

ALPHA ADRENERGIC - ends in zocin

BETA-BLOCKERS - ends in olol

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER - ends in dipine

DIRECT ACTING VASODILATORS - starts with nitro

CARDIAC GLYCOSIDES - starts with dig

BRONCHODILATORS - ends in terol, terenol, phrine, phylline

ANTIHISTAMINES - ends in tadine, amine, ramine

H2 BLOCKER - ends in tidine

ANTI-EMETICS - ends in setron

PANCREATIC ENZYME REPLACEMENT - starts with pancrea

ADH MEDS - ends in pressin

THYROID MEDS - starts with thyro, thy, thro

CALCIUM REGULATORS - ends in dronate (hypocalcemia), tonin hypercalcemia)

SULFONYLUREAS - ends in ide, amide, zide, ride

NON-SULFONYLUREAS - ends in glinide, glitazone

ANTIBIOTICS - ends in cillin

CEPHALOSPORINS - starts with ceph, cef

AMINOGLYCOSIDE - ends with mycin, micin

QUINOLONES - ends in floxacin, oxacin

Just DON'T LOSE FOCUS!! I have a hard time with meds too, but really just know the classes. I took the NCLEX and failed it because the questions I got was mostly on pt. education.

Good Luck!!

Hope this helps, it's from Random Fact Throwing! :):)

Learn one med class a day! It will bring down the stress level of learning the meds.

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This should help! Thank you so much!! Kudos to you :)

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Don't try to learn everything about every drug. Learn one prototype drug for each class to start out and then expand from there if you have time.

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