Here's what you need to know for nursing pharmacology

21 Sept 2021 · 1 min

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In this instructional segment, the speaker outlines essential study priorities for nursing pharmacology. She stresses that students must focus on the generic names of drugs, as these appear on exams, rather than trade names. Understanding each medication’s mechanism of action is highlighted as the foundation for grasping side effects, patient education, assessment, and proper administration. The speaker also emphasizes learning critical administration points—what to do before, during, and after giving a medication. She references a set of pharmacology flashcards contained in a "pharmacology box" that guide learners through these concepts systematically.

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Here's what you need to know when studying pharmacology in nursing school, make sure you know the generic name of the medication, not the trade name, because the generic name is what is definitely going to show up on your exam. You will also want to know, of course, the mechanism of action of the medication. That means how it acts in the body. You have to know what is going on with the medication in the body for you to understand everything else, like the side effects, patient education, assessment, how you're going to give the medication. And also, you've got to know some really key key points for each medication, for administration, before, during, and after. So the pharmacology flashcards that we have inside the pharmacology box walk you through all of that.