Best nursing pharmacology books according to redditors

First, i know it will seem pessimistic of me to ask but; are you guys getting along very well? Most likely one will be better than the other, cause some frustration and will kill the learning process because of ego mismanagement.

If you guys can really work as a team, here's what i suggest:

• As a couple, your best asset is the very fact that you're a couple. If you live in a big town, google russian and the name of your town and go hangout there. Since it will be an "enclave" rather than a ghetto, you will see cultural stuff everywhere. Pamphlets and ads in local russian newspapers with tons of cultural events and beginners-in-russian are most often than not warmly welcomed, since russian is a very hard language to master for non-native speakers, meaning that they will be happy that a stranger puts in the effort of learning their language and their culture. They will often go the extra mile to help you pronounce and correct your mistakes. Of course, you will encounter suspicious and taciturn characters but hanging out in russian cafés and attending local cultural events will super-charge your russian assimilation. Languages are meant to be spoken.
  
  
• Secondly, i strongly, strongly recommend the acquisition of this book:
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Russian-Learners-Dictionary-Words-Frequency/dp/0415137926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431171&sr=8-1-spell
  
  And follow this man's method, The Goldlist Method:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6FERpM5fQ (Part one)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyJiGVJ0LM (Part two)
  
  This will be your main method of vocabulary acquisition. I also recommend:
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Schaums-Outline-Russian-Grammar-Second/dp/007161169X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431298&sr=8-2
  
  and
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Big-Silver-Book-Russian-Verbs/dp/007143299X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
  
  Yes i know, spending money sucks, but i bought all three of them and not regret my choice at all. Very practical.
  
  Speaking of spending money, if you have money to spend, spend it on a private tutor for both of you. The value of this cannot be stressed enough. He will explain things to you that books can't and will correct your pronunciation and also challenge you by having higher degrees of conversation (like the use of dative instead of instrumental, etc) so that you learn in deep and not just "to get by".
  
  A huge part of language acquisition is the exposition to culture. The longer you expose yourself to russian, the faster and better learners you will be. That means listening to russian music, watching russian videos and movies, reading russian news and get interested in what's happening int he country, speaking russian as much as possible. Immerse yourself in it.
  
  If you do all of this and you really, really dedicate yourself to it and use your couple as a blessing rather than a curse, i guarantee you that in 6 months, your level of russian will be that native russians will not believe you when you will tell them it's всего шесть месяцев :)
  
  Hope this helped, good luck with your russian!
  

If you want the standard sequence of Neuroscience textbooks, there is a rough ordering of 3 common books. Each are very comprehensive and more than you would likely be able to read cover to cover, but they get more sophisticated and comprehensive as you go. The last one specifically is essentially the bible of neuroscience and you will be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive coverage of any of the topics outside a specialised textbooks or research papers.

These books will cover the general overview of neuroanatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathology but if you want to go further in depth, there are more advanced books for each of those and dozens of other subfields.

1. Purves - Neuroscience
   
2. Bear - Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
   
3. Kandel - Principles of Neural Science
   
   I would specifically recommend Nolte - The human brain: an introduction to its functional anatomy as an exceptional example of a specialised text. Unfortunately, I do not recall the neurpharmacology text that I used, but it was very good too. I shall look it up and get back to you! For a more general introduction to pharmacology, the standard text is Rand and Dale - Pharmacology.

And since most of these suggestions are shit that you won't get near without raiding a pharmacy, it's best to keep an eye out for one of these too: https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Drug-Guide-Nurses/dp/0335225470

Also, consider dating/marrying a nurse/doctor. Especially of the ER variety.

Furthermore, watch out for OTC stuff. It's SUPER easy to overdose on Tylenol and kill your liver. For example, if you've ever had a cold and taken both Sudafed and Mucinex at the same time, you've OD'd on Acetaminophen.

(2 caplets every 4 hours is 12 caplets/day, 325mg each, 3900mg of acetaminophen, OD is 4,000mg+, and that's the RECOMMENDED dosage for Mucinex alone)

Seriously, ditch Tylenol. Use ibuprofen. All the benefits, none of the liver damage.

Pharm is tough. The first test of nursing school in ANY subject is going to be tough.

My success in pharm has depended on studying in MANY different ways. My professor provides us with a "key list" of drugs for each test module, and then bases her lectures off that list. I take that list, save it to my desktop, and almost retype all of her PPT notes underneath each drug/drug class. I print this off as a sort of condensed "manual" and carry that with me just about everywhere. It makes it easy for me to study (I don't have to get out my laptop, can read it at a red light...oops?). Also, I use mosby's flashcards (link below) and found them to be extremely helpful. The pictures may or may not be too silly to remember, but the information on the back is extremely condensed and helpful. Now, these flashcards do NOT always have everything my professor tests on, HOWEVER, they do give me a good starting point.

Basically, I start small and start to build on a drug class. I "get to know" my drug by looking at the Mosby flashcard. I'm familiar. I then re read my notes from my teacher. More familiar. I tend to repeat this step a LOT. If it feels like it's not sinking in, just keep going. Pharm is a lot of rote memorization, and you have to keep chugging.

I also found it very helpful to read case studies on a drug, find a youtube video ABOUT someone who takes the drug, read something about someone who took it, etc. It was a LOT easier for me to remember a drug when I was able to put a story to it. I have classmates who even make up their OWN stories about a drug. Whatever you have to do.

I don't study for pharm in any one way. The key is to find a way that keeps you ENGAGED. I personally did not enjoy making flashcards (the ones I bought served a purpose) and got more use out of re-typing notes and having everything on a few pages.

Also, do you have a study group? I find that sitting down with my condensed drug list and talking about the drug with classmates helps a lot. Quiz each other. Just talk about it. It's also helpful to find out a classmate has been/is on a certain drug and shares their story about the drug. Again, have something to connect to.

One important thing to realize (I struggled with this) is that you CANNOT memorize EVERYTHING about a drug. When I say "spend time" with each drug, pretend you are sitting there taking it out to dinner. Find out it's life story. Why does it do what it does? Once you start understanding the drug, you can start to understand/guess some of the side and adverse effects (some side/adverse effects are just oddballs, and you have to memorize those, but fortunately the "weird" ones are the easy ones that stand out!). The big drug list we got used to overwhelm me, but just take it one. bite. at. a. time. Also, I study pharm a little bit every day. I could NOT be successful in this class if I was like a lot of my other classmates and crammed. Often times, it's literally the day before a test where the information just "clicks", and I finally feel confident. I can't imagine trying to cram all the info in in a few days. It's not a good subject for that.

Also, now you know HOW your teacher tests, and the kinds of questions they deem to be important. When you meet with your teacher, be sure to straight up ask them what they recommend. Many teachers are more than willing to help. My pharm professor is amazing, and is the reason pharm is one of my favorite classes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0323289541/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

No promises, but I might be able to write up a document. Depends on how much time I got after I'm done grading these calculus papers.

EDIT: This is taking longer than I thought! I might suggest an EXCELLENT grammar book, though: Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar by James Levine. It's amazingly comprehensive, shows tons of tables, gives example usages, has exercises with keys in the back... we're using it for my Intermediate Russian course right now, and I love it. It might be a bit overwhelming if you're just starting out, though. But even then, if you take it a bit at a time, it can be a huge help.

I'm not sure if I'll keep going with this, because I want to put so much into it (otherwise I feel I'm just rehashing what can already be found online). I'd like to put:

• A description of patterns found in declensions
  
• Logical explanations for certain features / patterns / historical artifacts that appear
  
• IPA / phonemic charts for declensions (what phonemes make up the endings?)
  
• Orthographic charts for declensions (what do these phonemes end up looking like when written?)
  
• Example declensions for all genders in each of the three declensions (this is like 6 paradigms)
  
• Example declensions for all six stress paradigms
  
• Lists of irregularities...
  
  All of this (except the IPA stuff) is featured in Levine's book, anyway. I'd honestly just recommend buying it.

NRSG.com has a pharm course that I'm taking over the summer. Get an early start on that crap, that's the one course that almost took me out last semester (did fine in the class but failed the ATI). I also really like these pharm flashcards, they don't cover all drugs but I was actually able to visualize a few of the cards during my ATI retake and it helped.

I am also in patho next fall so can't help you there....

As a pure reference encyclopedia Rang and Dales pharmacology is an excellent resource. All information is presented clearly and has brilliant diagrams and tables which explains concepts well. It is a little large and heavy to carry around though.

I am currently reading Toxicology: Principles and Methods by M A Subramanian and I find it very well presented and concise, also fits in a bag easily and isn't too heavy so is practical to carry around.

pharm plash

Thanks! I actually took my pharm final a few weeks ago and barely passed it... and it was open book.

So, I struggle a lot there. I am going to get this to help me out, but are there any other resources you can think of that would help? I know it's mostly memorization, but I get overwhelmed because of how much there is.

Like, I went through an entire pharm course and I know the only reason I passed was because we were allowed to use our notes for quizzes and our books for the final. I barely retained any of the information that was taught to me.

And now, it's a huge struggle because my program is so fast-paced that once you fall behind, you're pretty much done for because there are already 2 new subjects we're racing through and it's hard to find the time to study for everything I'm in currently, let alone things I need to work on additionally.


But it's important because pharmacology is obviously going to be a big part of the state board exam. :(

I'm finishing up my Pharmacology class for the semester now. I would say there's a few things that have been really useful while studying.

The first is to get some kind of supplement to your textbook. I use the Mosby flashcards with full illustrations on one side, and a full list of the medicine's action, uses, adverse effects, etc. on the other. They give a really good summary of the things you need to know, and have nice mnemonics and ways to remember basic info.

The second is to make study guides. I lucked out and have a teacher who gives us a list of specific things to look for on the exams, but they can also be done by simply going through the class of drug (antibiotics, for example), then narrowing it down to specific drugs, their effect on the body, what they're used to treat, therapeutic dose, and adverse reactions.

A lot of my test questions will focus on why you'd use Drug A over Drug B, even though they're both the same kind of medicine. Pay attention to these, because they can be really useful in understanding why there's various versions of specific drugs. Why would warfarin be a good choice over heparin for abdominal surgery, even though they're typically used together? Things like that.

Finally, something that personally works for me is the night before the test, I will simply handwrite out the most important information from our PowerPoint lectures, my study guide, etc. It's time consuming, and rewriting doesn't work for everyone, but I find it helpful since I type most of my notes/study guides in class.

Here's the link for the flash cards if you're interested.
https://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Memory-NoteCards-Mnemonic/dp/0323289541

I would also suggest looking over any Pathophysiology notes you may have, or A&P if you haven't taken Patho. Understanding disease processes and what system your drug is effecting specifically can help with comprehension.

Good luck!

There are premade med flashcards you can buy. Here's an example.

Her class will likely have powerpoints to study or she can take notes during lecture that will help highlight the important information. You don't have to literally memorize every medication, because that would be insane. It's a lot of learning the more common classes of drugs and their actions/side effects, and most of the drugs in their respective classes have similar names so they are easy to lump together. I find the people that made 100s of flash cards for every drug imaginable wasted their time.

For NCLEX all I did was buy the Kaplan Q bank and the Saunders review book and do ~50 practice questions a day for about 2 weeks and I passed first try.

No problem. It's what I'm using to study for my NCLEX, and it was a great help during my various courses too.

If you need help with Pharmacology I'd recommend this book as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-Made-Insanely-Loretta-Manning/dp/0984204075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427289442&sr=8-1&keywords=pharmacology+made+insanely+easy

I use this clipboard for clinicals:
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I use this bag for clinicals :
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These cards for pharm:
Pharm Phlash!: Pharmacology Flash... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803660480?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

This backpack for lecture, books are HEAVY:
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And that’s basically the sum of what I use everyday in nursing school. :)

I found the PharmPhlash! cards to be very helpful: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/080362994X

My school also provided us with an app called Nursing Central from Unbound Medicine. It requires a paid membership, but it's an extremely helpful quick reference available on your PDA at any time!

Try Pharm Phlash. These are great cards that help me.
http://www.amazon.com/Pharm-Phlash-Pharmacology-Flash-Cards/dp/080362994X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394126178&sr=8-1&keywords=pharm+phlash+pharmacology+flash+cards

I'm a Pharm.D student and when I first started pharmacology I found these cards helpful:

http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Memory-NoteCards-Mnemonic/dp/0323078001/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1420735838&sr=8-5&keywords=pharmacology+flash+cards+for+nursing+students

I think this is the newer edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Memory-NoteCards-Mnemonic/dp/0323289541/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1420735838&sr=8-3&keywords=pharmacology+flash+cards+for+nursing+students

Search pharmacology for nurses on Amazon and there's a lot of great resources!

Pharmacology by Rang Dale and Ritter. My all time hands down favourite book. Helped me pass my degree, depth that you can understand!

Need textbooks:

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Nursing-Concepts-Challenges-8e/dp/0323431127

https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Calculations-Applications-General-Specialty/dp/0323390889

https://www.amazon.com/Nesters-Microbiology-Denise-Anderson-Lecturer/dp/0073522597/

https://www.amazon.com/Laboratory-Exercises-Microbiology-BARNETT-MASAMI/dp/0787256242/

$3 EACH

You have to give more than that. What are you having trouble with: not remembering the formulas, not knowing what formula to use, or not doing the math correctly?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1605471976/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1382241788&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

Get this book and you should have no problem getting it down

I would say pharmacology is something people struggle with the most! We have to memorize a lot of drug names, classifications, mechanisms of action, side effects, and more. It can get confusing. You can check out this study guide I made for a recent pharm test I had, it gives some of the most important meds and a brief overview of them just to get yourself familiar.

I also found this book on Amazon, I haven't used it but the reviews are good! Seems like a good introduction and overview of pharmacology. I wouldn't spend a ton on a textbook until you know which one your school requires!

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You are tricky, tricky!

Not sure if this is the one: https://www.amazon.com/Memorizing-Pharmacology-A-Relaxed-Approach/dp/B01FSR7XZO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=. And this one is also available in audiobook by the same author: https://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Pharm-Brand-Generic-Classifications/dp/B0716P6Y15/ref=pd_cp_129_1?. Narrator is like David Attenborough...superb!

Any chance you have this one?

https://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-Patient-Centered-Nursing-Process-Approach/dp/1455751480

You're way better off getting something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jung-Key-Ideas-Teach-Yourself/dp/1444103296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527626108&sr=8-1&keywords=jung+the+key+ideas

And then a general overall pharmacological textbook, maybe something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Pharmacology-Mary-Asperheim-Favaro/dp/1437717063

or

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Pharmacology-Pathophysiologic-Basis-Therapy/dp/1608312704

I highly recommend the Rang & Dale Flashcards, they're extensive and very clear. The whole set consists of about 300 cards, split into around 40 sections (each based on a specific class of drug/body system/specific disease). On the front of the card is a diagram representing an overview of the system with the name of a drug at the top. On the reverse side is all the relevant info regarding the drug (actions, MOA, parmacokinetics, use and adverse effects). As you move on to the next card the drug is added to the fist overview diagram at its point of action, so that when you get to the final drug of the section you have a full representation of the physiology and how each drug effects it.

It may be worth mentioning that they are written by British professors, and I don't know if the US pharmacology curriculum differs from the British (assuming you're studying in the states).

Pharm Phlash! Pharmacology cards are great! These are helping me with my pharmacology class and provide a lot of information on them. These cards are sorted by brain, endocrine, muscle, etc then from there have an index where you can look up the drug. It also gives you the trade, generic, and Canadian name too. Gives you doses, routes, and adverse effects.

Pharm Phlash!: Pharmacology Flash Cards https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803660480/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_urEZCbSX8K39R

this is the book my school uses

https://www.amazon.com/Pharm-Phlash-Cards-Pharmacology-Flash/dp/080362994X

prime student get them in 48 hours. Take these with you everywhere. But remember don't get too wrapped up in pharm its a small section of the NCLEX. After all you are trying to become nurses, not pharmacists.

I loved the Pharm Phlash cards. Great index, multiple drugs on one card, easy to understand mechanism of action, etc. Can't say enough great things about this set!

If you genuinely want something to look up specific information, then getting a textbook (even as a PDF) may be your best bet as a one stop shop for medications. Something like Rang and Dale's is pretty standard amongst medical and pharmacy students for example.

https://www.amazon.com/Rang-Dales-Pharmacology-STUDENT-CONSULT/dp/0702034711

I clicked "look inside" and started reading the table of contents

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I remember that Clint Harding said somewhere that the books were generic, general type books. Books you would have with you all the time.

The books...

http://www.amazon.com/Mosbys-Pharmacology-Nursing-Leda-McKenry/dp/0323030084

http://www.amazon.com/Pearson-Health-Professionals-Guide-2015-2016/dp/0134062191


Items in her car

http://mauramurray.blogspot.com/2015/11/what-they-found-in-mauras-car.html

this one

Read. A. Book. A secondary metabolite is a compound synthesized by an organism that is not directly involved in its growth/reproduction. Psilocybin, for example, is a secondary metabolite (I shouldn't have to source such basic knowledge, but here it is). Seriously bud, you're completely out of your league here. Time to admit when you're wrong.

I'd love to see a source for that sub-threshold dose of baeocystin comment btw. Keep in mind these were just two examples off the top of my head. There are plenty more.