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I have a friend in her last semester of Nursing, she said it was important to be memorizing drugs now. I have many lists from Nursing 1 with all the drugs we covered but I just wondered if there was a better way to go about learning these. I saw another post about Mosby's Memory cards or maybe it was a book. I just wondered if anyone can shed light on how they learned the drugs. Thanks for your help! I want to stay ahead of this game!!

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Try just learning the endings. Obviously just the endings for Pharm class is not good enough. But for general practice my preceptor said it is ok.

like pril, cillin etc...

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Yeah, try using the endings of the names of the drugs if you can... like the above post said with "pril"... also "lol" are beta blockers. Focus a lot on your cardiac drugs, know if they're alpha 1, beta 1, etc. (beta-blockers, anti-arrhythmic drugs like amiodarone, digoxin) Know your diuretic drugs for CHF and so forth. Realize that the "mycins" are hard on your kidneys. Know the common psych meds too (sorry, I can't remember enough to be any more specific w/ those...)

Hope that helps a little. Good luck!

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http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

This website helped me to pass my Pharm HESi as well as prepare for many tests as well as NCLEX

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