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Studying drugs

I know this question has probably been asked a million times- but I'm going to ask it anyhow.

We don't have a separate Pharmacology class, the drugs are just gone over as needed. This is the second time around with nursing school for me, the thing that tripped me up the most were the drugs.

I made some notecards (the only drugs on this test are the antibiotics) but there just still seems to be a TON of information on them, and I have a week to figure them out.

So are there any tips out there to make the drugs easier?

I have tried a study group, and it helped, but the one I went to was HUGE. 15 people in it. And at times it was more mass chaos (everyone talking at once) than anything else................

Thanks-

Cheryl

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I would also get the "Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy" book by Springhouse (make sure you get the latest edition, things change fast in pharm). You seriously don't have pharm classes? Our LPN program alone had 6 credit hours of it, over two semesters. There's a lot of pharm on the NCLEX-PN, as well.

Here is the link to the book on Amazon. It's certainly not as comprehensive as a pharm text, but it'll give you the basics in a concise format. Good luck to you! http://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Pharmacology-Made-Incredibly-Easy/dp/0781792894/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252105010&sr=8-1

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Oh no, we do have Pharm classes. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear on that. It's just that I think we go over the drugs individually as part of each unit. I'm in my 1st semester of RN school, and in this 16 week session we cover antimicrobials, diuretics, antidiabetics, analgesics, and I think that's all. The neat thing is- we only go over 1 drug category at a time, and it's broken up so we don't have more than 1 drug category on a test at a time. That does make me feel a little bit better.

I'm just frustrated right now b/c we took a test today and I missed passing by 4 POINTS. And I am SO FRUSTRATED right now. I'm trying to get over it (and I know I need to) b/c we've got another one next week. 7 in all, so missing 1 or 2 isn't bad.

Thanks for the info,

Cheryl

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I know this thread is older, but just found a site that has free, printable flashcards as well as online review, that is pretty good. It already had all my antibiotics listed on flash cards, so that saves me some time!

Additionally, this site has great tables of which drug for which bug. Has some weird ones I don't need in there, but also all the ones I do: http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drugtopics/data/articlestandard//drugtopics/362005/177776/article.pdf

This site has some detailed clinical info on each bug, but of course it's for the particular region the authors are from so some indications and bugs will vary where you're from: http://www.bugsanddrugs.ca/bugs_drugs_website/web-content/COMBINED_BandD2006_certified.pdf

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