rxrunner

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1. How To Get Started As A Nurse Writer

   rxrunner replied to Elizabeth Hanes's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Beth, This is a timely post, I'm a pharmacist who teaches at a nursing school. I'm at AWP in Los Angeles this weekend (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) with 12,000 other writers and I'll...

2. What is better to start off with? CNA, Pharmacy Tech or Phlebotomy?

   rxrunner replied to ellelove's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   I think pharmacy tech has the most opportunities to move into a job you might actually stay with for quite a while as well now that they do Med Rec in

3. Is there an easy way memorizing drug names?

   rxrunner replied to mariamawit's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I put up a 70 minute video with the Over the Counter meds that makes it easier to learn the RX ones. It might help for kinesthetic learners or for international

4. Is Pharmacy Tech Training Useful?

   rxrunner replied to Herbal's topic in General Nursing

   I teach in a Pharm Tech program and we have many pre-nursing students get their Pharm Tech certification while they are on the wait list. They say it really helps with pharmacology and medications,...

5. Thinking about leaving nursing school

   rxrunner replied to Student1713's topic in General Students

   There's never a good time to do nursing school and there's never a good time to have kids! I can tell you that my sister in law got married just after nursing school and it's like she played a country...

6. Is there an easy way memorizing drug names?

   rxrunner replied to mariamawit's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   There are a few errors in there that I want to respectfully correct.my comments are in parenthesis. -ase = thrombolytic (-ase means enzyme, while all thrombolytics end in -ase, that doesn't mean all...

7. Pharmacology - best way to learn

   rxrunner replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I have taught pharmacology at a nursing school for six years and I understand your frustration. It's something called the "Curse of Knowledge" where an instructor can't understand why a student...

8. RN program missing pharmacology!!!!!

   rxrunner replied to sewinnett's topic in General Students

   You can find a lot of pharmacology information online. I put up 8 videos for my students, thought the Drug Names Decoded book will be gone this fall, I wrote another one called "A Little Pharmacology...

9. How should I study for pharmacology? How did you or are you -studying for pharm?

   rxrunner replied to RescueNinja2013's topic in LPN to RN

   I created 8 free videos on drug pronunciation that you can listen to on YouTube for free just type in Drug Names Decoded. I just finished writing the next edition of the book that goes with it called...