please help me about meds

[cardiaccancer29]

i have some difficulty in memorizing the medication their brand name and generic name and also their side effect. can some one please help me on how I could memorize it or remember it easily, like is there any mnemonics?

[drugstorecowgirl214]

i have some difficulty in memorizing the medication their brand name and generic name and also their side effect. can some one please help me on how I could memorize it or remember it easily, like is there any mnemonics?

I made flash cards for my meds. Then on side effects I'd highlight the ones that'd harm them the most. I didn't try to to every single side effect as that's just not possible. I go over my flash cards over and over and over again. I take them everywhere with me. As a matter of fact I have to get down insulins and antihypertensive meds before a test on Monday. But, it's totally doable!

Good luck to you.

[PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN]

i have some difficulty in memorizing the medication their brand name and generic name and also their side effect. can some one please help me on how I could memorize it or remember it easily, like is there any mnemonics?

I learned a lot of my pharmacology in clinicals...ironically, pharm I and II didn't help me much. But I learn by doing. Get to recognize the suffixes of a certain meds...the suffix can tip you off as to what class it belongs to.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

challenge your classmates to use the terms in conversation and to quiz one another. Saying them actually helps you remember them.

[ErieSTL1980]

i have some difficulty in memorizing the medication their brand name and generic name and also their side effect. can some one please help me on how I could memorize it or remember it easily, like is there any mnemonics?

Unfortunately, as a whole, I don't know of any quick mnemonic to remember all drugs (if there is, someone let me know!!). In order to make the memorizing a little easier I have found some tips:

1. Memorize classes--with a very few exeptions in each class, all members of a given class tend to similar action, side-effects, etc. (for example ACE inhibitors--all have dry couch as a side-effect; loop diuretics can cause hypokalemia)

2. Pay attention to suffixes/word roots, etc. (Beta blockers end in -lol; "lukast" are leukotriene receptor inhibitors). Based on the suffix, you can figure out what class it it in, the go back to #1.

3. Think about it logically. For example: what does Nitro do? Dilates all the veins (and, at higher doses, arteries). If this occurs, what will happen to the pt.? Hypotension and HA among other things...

4. Just spend time with it. I know it really stinks, but you just have to memorize somethings.