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Pharmacology

I need help! I'm a 1st year student for an ADN program and all my classes are going good except Pharm. My Pharm teacher gives us powerpoint notes which helps, but when it comes time to lecture she just reads straight off the powerpoints. I can do that myself!!! There's no in depth teaching and I'm a very subjective learner and am used to teachers.....umm i don't know......maybe teaching! I'm passing the course with a 75 but at any moment my grade can lower and if I do not receive a 75 or higher the road ends here. I need help big time. Any tips? I e-mailed her for tips but she never responded back to me. I would really like advice on good study techniques for this class. I try to make drug cards, but most of the questions on her exam are on side effects and it throws me off because each drug has about 30 side effects and I'm studying about 60 drugs! Almost every drug has Nausea and vomiting!! An help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!:bow:

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Prentice Hall has the reviews and rationales series. They have a Pharmacology one. I don't know if they review the side effects, maybe you could look at it at the library before you consider buying it. I have seen them on Ebay.

Someone got me the Mosby's flash cards for pharm and they are great. I used them when I had it and got an A in the course.....I would definetly recommend them....

Although your instructor is reading straight from the powerpoint she may be stressing certain things about a medication, she/he may be saying something about a med that is important but you didn't catch it because it is already on the powerpoint. My nursing school also uses powerpoint and my instructor reads it also, but she also stresses certain things like, NEVER GIVE TO, or ALWAYS check for, at that point I make myself a note and I can guarantee that the information WILL be on the test. Hope this helps.

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Thanks guys! I'll let you know how I do my test is Tuesday! Wish me luck!:up:

I know this may not help you much, but I found that when I applied the drugs to a disease that it was used for, it really helped me understand the drug. Our teacher keeps stressing it isn't about memorizing anymore, we now have to move up to the critical thinking level.

So, since my nursing classes seem to be following the same disease processes at the same time, I have been making out flow sheets for each disease process that they test on. I include the pathophys, the meds, and the nursing interventions. This has really helped me to see the whole picture.

I am not going to pretend this is easy, but it is just a suggestion.

Daytonite has a wonderful critical thinking flow chart that is an example of the above. I started to use her sheet, and since then my grades have drastically improved this semester.

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you need to get your own copy of a nursing drug reference. there are a number of them published for sale on the market. the one that i have (2007 mosby's nursing drug reference) boldfaces the serious or life threatening side effects of drugs. these specific side effects are also referred to in the nursing considerations section of each drug as symptoms you will monitor the patient for. so, for drugs like gentamycin you need to know has a serious side effect of ototoxicity (deafness), the very serious side effect of potassium chloride is dysrhythmias, cardiac depression and cardiac arrest and good old acetaminophen (tylenol) can cause liver failure (with overdose), kidney failure (with high prolonged doses) and hemolytic anemia (with long term use). you will only learn these from looking them up and memorizing them at this stage of your learning. not every drug has these terrible side effects. i pulled the 3 i listed off the top of my head because they are notorious and i have seen patients that got these side effects. that's how common and serious they are! if there are any questions on your nclex it will be about these types of notorious side effects that can injure a patient.

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