LVN_instructor

To be perfectly honest, there is no easy way to learn the meds. What I tell my students is repetition is the key. Make an old fashioned drug card everytime you run across a med that you are not familiar with, even if you have made one before. Reveiw them. Often. Have a family member ask you about a drug and you tell them the info listed on the card. (while they hold it of course). If you do not fair that well, then look at the card and put it back in the pile, and do it again. THe ones that you are having the most trouble with...write down the name, make new drug cards. The other thing to remember is that you will never know all the meds, and the things that you do know about the ones out there may change (dosage indications etc. ) I keep my students focused on the meds that are most commonly administered at the clinical area where they are currently at. That makes the information relevant to them.