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Learn medications by class, not individually. Grouping drugs by mechanism of action or therapeutic effect cuts study time in half and helps you understand the underlying principles instead of memorizing each drug separately.

Learn medications by class, not individually. Grouping drugs by mechanism of action or therapeutic effect cuts study time in half and helps you understand the underlying principles instead of memorizing each drug separately.
Remember this when you're studying pharmacology in nursing school, learn medications by class, not individually. Most medications can be grouped by either pharmacologic or therapeutic class, which means that they all have a similar mechanism of action and they act the same way in the body. Here's why this is important. When you group them by class and learn them as a group, you'll be cutting your study time in half.