cortney397

That sounds like a good idea. When you meet with your teacher, ask her how elaborate you need to be. In my experience, they usually want to know the drug class and what they are going to do in a way the patient understands. I could write all the bio mechanisms down for them but if at the end of the day they just wanna know that it's going to lower bp, there no reason for confusing myself and going so in depth. We also use sheets with columns on it that have drug name, class, therapeutic action, contingencies, dose and admin, relevant labs and client teaching. It's helpful because you don't have to juggle around everything and it's all in one place when I go to present to my teacher before I give them.

Something my teacher made us do last semester that was super helpful to me when preparing for clinicals was to write down the disease process the way the book explains and then write how we were going to explain it to the patient with no nursing background. If helped me break down difficult things so that others could understand. Same with meds. Yes it's important to know all the information, but at the end of the day you need to know what the med is going to do for the client and what the contingencies are. All the other stuff is kinda fluff that's good to know for you but may not be beneficial to the patient. Keep your chin up and remember we learn the most from our failures not necessarily always being successful.