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any one in the health care field that had to take a pharmacology course? i need HELP for my pharm for nursing course!!!!! any one know any good sites, books, hints etc to help with the memorization? my first exam is on thursday and i’m having a minor panic attack!!
any help will be greatly apprecitated!!!
So you want suggestions for panic attacks?
Remember the “rule of 2.” If the dose is more than 2 pills or more than 2 teaspoons, you may have made a mistake in your calculations.
Yenta – Actually I found pharm easy. But this my suggestion -Get over to B & N. They have tons of pharm books in the med/nursing section. Leaf though them and pick one or more that you think would be good for you. Here are some books I found for you on Amazon:
1. Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series) by Springhouse (Paperback – Jun 23, 2008)
2. Medical Dosage Calculations For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness)) by Dr. Richard Snyder and Barry Schoenborn (Paperback – May 3, 2011)
3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prescription Drugs by Michael C. Gerald (Paperback – Aug 1, 2006)
4. Understanding Prescription Drugs For Canadians For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) by Ian Blumer and Heather McDonald-Blumer (Paperback – Mar 20, 2007)
5. Mosby’s Pharmacology Memory NoteCards: Visual, Mnemonic, and Memory Aids for Nurses by JoAnn Zerwekh MSN EdD RN, Jo Carol Claborn MS RN and Tom Gaglione MSN RN (Spiral-bound – Dec 5, 2007)
6. Pharmacology Made Insanely Easy by Loretta Manning, Sylvia Rayfield and Nicole Blackwelder (Paperback – Apr 2009)
7. Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple by James M. Olson (Paperback – Jul 1, 2010)
8. Clinical Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series) by Springhouse (Paperback – Jun 4, 2008)
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I also had that book in school! way too much info.
I think to study read the chapter summaries and study your powerpoints if you’re lucky enough to have them.
One book that is helpful and is not a big heavy text book is Pharmacology from the Reviews and Rationales series by someone Hogan. You can find it on amazon. I found that Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy dumbs it down too much.
To memorize it helps to know the categories of drugs and each categoires suffix.
hudi – “To memorize it helps to know the categories of drugs and each categoires suffix.”
Wrong on “it helps”, there is no other way to do it, unless you have a photographic memory! Eg. lol -ending is Beta-blockers, like propanolol.
Yenta – “and according to my pharm teacher Beta-blockers are -OLOL”
You shouldn’t have baited me; now my ego is swelling.
Your teacher is wrong. Here are two examples that proves I’m right – labetalol, carvedilol!
Yenta – I don’t care what degree he/she has, but he/she obviously made a mistake. If you feel uncomfortable, you don’t have to correct him/her. The mistake ain’t gonna make any difference to anyone.
Its interesting that though the WHO in the 2009 INN stem book states that b-blockers should end in “olol” carvedilol and labetalol seem to have bucked the rules, I wonder why. In any case I used Goodman and Gilman’s. Very wordy, but a fierce pharm book. Mine is a bit old now. I should get a new one soon.
I think what might have happenned was that once upon a time all b-blockers did end in -olol. With the advent of more b-blockers they needed to just limit the ending to -lol.
yentingyenta – I’m still in school, but done with pharm class forever 🙂
And for the record, there are plenty of exceptions to the suffix rule.
Ok Hudi -Name the drugs and which class they belong to.
There are none in the beta blockers -they all end with -lol.
I just remember this generally from studying, not specific drugs. And I’m not talking about a specific class either. I am actually going back to my pharm book to find an example for you.
Example – CCB – suffix = -dipine. Exceptions: Diltiazem and Verapamil
Example – alpha blockers – suffix = -zosin. Exceptions: Tamulosin and Silodosin.
You’re right, there are none that I know of in the beta blockers.
yenting yenta: i know who are and im in ur class and for the record our teacher did mention the exceptions to the beta blocker rule!! she did not have a senior moment!! although i admit she does have them pretty often!!
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