pharmacology advice needed please?

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Specializes in Pediatrics and Women's Health.

Any tips, advice on how to remember everything for pharmacology. Between dosage calculations, side effects, drugs to memorize my head is spinning. Any help is helpful. Thanks!

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We had to do drug cards on drugs our instructor wanted us to remember. Nomenclatures are a big hello. The classifications. I got this pocket book from Mosby's and it has picture to help you remember too. One example it had a picture of a heart and beside it is said Beta 1 to make you remember that Beta 1 Are cardio and it had lungs to help you remember we have 2 lungs, hence Beta 2. That was a very helpful book and I still look at it. Never saw the Pharmacology success book for Pharm, but those are a good series. There is one more book that I wished that I had at the beginning of class it was Straight A's in nursing Pharmacology. That is a really good book. Hope this helps. I bet your school library would have some of those. :)

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Specializes in Pediatrics and Women's Health.

Thank you so much. I have been holding an A average but as long as I pass I don't mind what grade I get. It is making my head hurt. Thank you.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.

Pharm makes everyone's head hurt: RN and LVN students alike.

I wish there was way to explain the drug categories to students. If you can focus on learning categories/classes of meds, that will help you way more than learning specific med names.

Also learn commonly used meds and a representative med from each class. I bet you can google a lost of commonly used meds for older people, or commonly used OTCs, etc.

I used lots of weird mnemonics to learn drug classes and thought of people I knew who took a particular med to help me memorize them.

GL!

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Specializes in Pediatrics and Women's Health.

That sounds like a good idea! Thank you.

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