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My pharmacology course was taught as part of the nursing curriculum. It was actually called "Nursing 2: Pharmacology" and was taught by several PharmDs from the hospital--each taught their area of expertise. It was a great course, but H A R D. However, if you are concerned, why not just take pharmacology on your own? It can't hurt (unless you get a terrible grade).
Where I went to school, Pharm was a separate 4 credit hour course. The course had to be completed before we were allowed to take our first clinical rotation. It was taught by a PhD in Pharm who also wrote the book we had to buy for the class. I loved that class!
I recommend a petition to make your pharm course a separate course. You'll really really NEED to know pharm in nursing, especially today the way nursing is changingl.
I think that thaking pharmacology is a necessity for todays nurse. The class itself is a catch-22 in my eyes. You have to (or should) take it prior to clinical work so you are familiar with what you are administering, but it is so much easier to understand and even like after you are exposed to it a bit (after you see how the drugs work, they are easier to understand, more fun to learn about, and even easier to learn). Anyway, I hated the class when I was in it, but it was very helpful and very important in the real world.
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How many of you had to take pharmacology as a prereq for your program? Our school does not require it and includes it within the nursing program. I find this frustrating as I have never heard of many of these drugs and think I would have benefited from atleast being introduced to them within classifications. Maybe I can get a petition going to replace chemistry for pharmacology as a nursing prereq :0). BTW, besides what we could probably learn in five minutes, why are we tourtured with chem, the hardest class many of us had to endure, when it's use withing nursing school (and I'm assuming nursing as a carreer), is so basic???? OK, that was off the subject. Just needed to vent :0). Back to the subject at hand, I would love to hear the insight all of you might have about the original subejct of pharmacology.
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