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Pharm Classes....

I know when I went to school, there was a pharmacology class. It was vital and I still refer back to it when I work.

I was speaking with a friend of mine who is in her 2nd year of nursing school and found out - there is NO pharmacology classes!! She said that in lecture, they will talk about some meds that might be commonly given, but it is nothing in depth, nothing about drug classes, how the meds work, etc... She said that the schools stance is "pharmacology classes are for pharmacists or doctors. its not your responsibility." She feels that the school is correct in saying this, but "maybe an extra class would help."

This pretty much horrified me!!!

Opinions?? Has anyone else heard of this?? Is this super common and I'm just naive?

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Im in a BSCN program. I found that in my opinion, my nursing school had a good patho class but not that great of a pharm class. They would cover some common drugs as we went along (ex: endocrine section - insulin and oral diabetic drugs) but we were barely tested on pharm - mostly on insulin and cardiac drugs like dont give the antihypertensive drug if the bp is low, etc...thats about it from what i found. Compared to the descriptions Ive read from other nursing schools, I think that my school should up their pharm content!. We had a huge pharm book that no one ever seemed to read since we were barely tested on it. I found that we focused all on patho and very little on drugs, maybe a slide here or there thats about it

Our med calculations consisted of about 15 questions for a homework exercise. That's it. And they were easy like order is 500 mg...you have 1000mg, how much do you give? lol

It wasn't even graded and we never did them again in the 4 years of school in a class. At least other schools have to pass pharm tests with 90% or 100% - we never had that.

We had pharm in 2 semesters for my BSN. Basic and advanced pharm.

One of the hardest courses I ever took.

Not teaching pharm to nurses is just asking for trouble.

cheers,

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