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I am a nursing student in Manchester, New Hampshire and a member of the National Student Nurses Association. Our school chapter would like to host a seminar day for the freshman and senior nursing students on pharmacology since our program does not offer or require one. Wondering if anyone knows of a person or facility that would be available one day to teach the students about clever ways to help them organize and remember drugs by therapeutic and pharmacological effect and also teach about side effects and contraindications. We haven't figured out the exact content, but wondering if there is a resource available. Thanks.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Wow...no course at all? One day? There is too much information for one day. What are you looking for? Most pharm courses are at least one semester usually 2. These may help you start...I am local to you PM me with questions if you wish.

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Pharmacology 260 Information

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Hi,

Thank you so much for sending the attached information. I will take a look at it. The school tries to incorporate some of it in class, but it really ends up being a self-learn, only there's not much time to self-learn and you hope you'll learn enough during clinical.

What we are really looking for is ways to help us learn them quickly. Were there techniques that others used to help them remember things like: what drugs were in what pharmacological classification and maybe even talk a little about those sites of action, what are the side effects, what are the contraindications. There is so much information that it becomes overwhelming and we just don't know where to start to try and organizing them and remember them.

If anyone has any quick tips to help that would be great or know someone who might be able to make a presentation on it that would be awesome too. I'm trying to use the Memory Notebook series to give visuals to help the information sink in, but there is so much other info going in at the same time.

Thanks for listening to me :loveya:

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I'm gonna be honest with you, that sounds like a very shady school if they do not offer a Pharmacology course. I'm going to a local technical school and we get a full course of Pharmacology and then the following semester another full course of Advance Pharmacology. There is too much information that is vital to nurses to be learned in just a couple days or to be "self taught". In my opinion, a proper full pharmacology course is essential.

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It is a technical school and actually is known to have a good nursing program. I, too, was surprised that they didn't have a course on it. They incorporate it into the program and we have a book we need to read as we go along and we learn quite a bit in clinical, I guess. I'm in an Associates program and so there isn't much time available to include a full class.

So, our NSNA group is trying to figure out a way to bring something to the students to help. We wish there was a "Pharmacology for Dummies" book or short program. Oh well, that's why we're trying to get tips on ways to organize our drugs to help us study them.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

My pharm book is 109 chapters, and we cover it over three semesters. Best of luck.

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