aerialflyer

I am 27 and a junior nursing student. My mother-in-law is also a junior in our nursing program. She will 50 when she graduates next May. So, I guess you can teach an old dog (or lovely lady Ha!) new tricks!

The biggest difference is rate of onset. NPH or lente is intermediate acting, onset in 3-4 hours, peak 6-12 hours, duration 18-28 hours. Regular is rapid action, 1/2 to 1 hour onset, 2-4 hour peak and 5-7 hour duration and finally there is long acting, which is ultralente, onset of 4-6 hours, peak in 18-24 hours and duration of 36 hours. This is the biggest difference. My drug cards are called Mediquick cards printed by springhouse. You could probably order them on the net. go to yahoo and type in springhouse mediquick. You could have them in 4 days!! Good luck. Ben Thanks for the tips Ben! [This message has been edited by aerialflyer (edited September 07, 2000).]

No preprinted drug cards are available in our school's bookstore. Sure I'm always looking for ways to save precious study time. Unfortunately, the assignment was to make our own. The card that is giving me the most problem now is insulin. There are so many types. How do you narrow them to fit on one drug card? The instructor said there was one major difference between the types and it was up to us to figure it out. Can anyone drop me any clues? P.S. Where can I find some of those preprinted drug cards anyway?

Attention all current nursing students, recent grads, or anyone that still remembers: I have just started the clinical part of my college's nursing program and pharmacology is, of course, one of the toughest courses that I am faced with this semester. We have been assigned to make drug cards for a number of drugs. All the information must fit on one 5 x 8 index card so we must decide what is the most important info. to include about each drug. We must include the drugs action, use, adverse effects, contraindications, nursing interventions, interactions, routes and dosages. My problem is deciding what is the most important to include under nursing interventions. I am using the Davis Drug Guide and it contains a great deal of info that I could include, but I cannot include it all Does anyone have any advice for a novice nursing student on how I might best decide what interventions to include?