Pharm, help!!!

@jenn2315 please check your email......Good luck.....

Thank you @ Notgivingup1

I scanned through it last night and am loving it! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

If you wouldn't mind I can use that study guide as well. I start Pharm class next semester. Thanks a million! All these posts got me a little nervous!

I'm actually looking forward to getting to pharm but I've been a pharm tech for 11 years. I'll have an advantage there. I learned by repetition on the job so that would be my suggestion. Learn the classes and suffixes as some have mentioned. That will make it easy to wing it on ones you might not be sure on when studying.

TY for the study guide notgivingup1! :)

notgivingup1, Thank you so much for the study guide!!!!!

Isabellah please check your email......Good Luck

Thank you so much.

Just went through and saw all the requests and I must say that you are AWESOME to help us all out! I start pharm 2 in august and did ok with dosage calc. but this looks a little hairy! Another tip my teacher taught us with dosage is the pig pharm which i thought was ingenious!

There is a pig pharm that is located right down the middle of two counties. (you make up we used jefferson county and bullit county) all the ppl from jeff called the pharm the 1 gram pharm. But all the ppl from bullit called it the 1000 mg pharm. So on the 1 gram pharm there is 15 grain bins. And each grain bin feeds 60 mg piggies.

1g = 1000mg

1g = 15 gr

1gr = 60 mg

also to calc up and down the metric:

kg ............... kL ................... up lefting 3 spaces

g ................ L .......................down right dirty 3 spaces

mg .............. mL

mcg

make these with stair steps on the side so you can go up or down. so example i want to change 600 mg to grams. So I have to go up (mg is under g so its up LEFTING) so the decimal goes three spaces to the left. 600 mg = .6 g.

EX: 0.6 L to mL.. L to mL is DOWN RIGHT DIRTY so.. 0.6 L = 600 mL. EX: 0.25 g to mg is down right dirty so.. 0.25 g = 250 mg

found that i used these calcs alot and its a fun way to to remember them...Shout out to Ms. Obreezy!!

Hey everyone, I'm so glad that I can be of help.....for those who request the study guide please check your email......best of luck...

Thank you so much, notgivingup1! I really do appreciate it!

I just finished pharm 2 a couple of weeks ago and got an A (yay!!)!! In addition to writing everything a million times...

We studied drugs by system (more or less) so I got some of the really big flash cards and had the following cards for each system as we covered it: Major Interactions, Major Toxicities or Side Effects, Black Box Warnings, and then a generic "I totally know they are going to test on this" card. On the other side I listed the drug name and briefly (just a few words) jotted things down to trigger my memory for each type of card. I never listed things like diarrhea as a side effect, but tried to stick to the things that made a drug different.

I basically just had a running list going as the semester progressed and it was REALLY nice to have the high points listed this way for my comprehensive final. Hope this helps!