The Top 300 Drugs Pocket Reference Guide serves as a portable reference to learn the essential information for the most commonly prescribed drugs. This on-the-go resource details the brand name, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, dosage form, common use, and other clinical details for each drug. Whether you’re a pharmacy student or healthcare professional, this guide will serve as an effective resource to learn the basic characteristics of the most popular drugs. Drug details include: • Brand Names • Pharmacologic Classes • Mechanisms of Action • Common Uses • Dosage Forms • Dosing Information • Administration Methods • Monitoring Guidelines • Contraindications • Drug Interactions • Adverse Effects • Black Box Warnings
The book uses a combination of different techniques to cater to each individual's needs. These techniques include: comparisons, visual learning, grouping and big pictures; all compressed into one simple and easy-to-use book! This book includes information for over 300 drugs, and illustrations are attached to this message
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A fast, fun, and effective way for pharmacy students to learn essential information about the top 300 drugs McGraw-Hill Education’s 2020/2021 Top 300 Pharmacy Drug Cards, Fifth Edition delivers everything pharmacy and nursing students need to know about the top 300 drugs in one easy-to-carry resource. Every card includes: Generic and common name, Class, Dosage Forms, Approved Dose and Indications, Off-Label Use, Contraindications, Adverse Reactions, Drug Interactions, Monitoring Parameters, Medication Safety Issues and Black Box Warnings, and strong focus on patient safety. •Provides photos so students can view tablets and packaging •Includes audio Q&A with detailed discussion for each drug at Top300DrugCards.com •15 bonus cards on key adult and pediatric vaccines •Great for NAPLEX® and course review!
The quickest, most efficient way for mastering critical facts about common drugs Perfect for NAPLEX and course review, McGraw-Hill's 2020/2021 Top 300 Pharmacy Drug Cards is the most concise and up-to-date resource for building a solid knowledge base of the most commonly used drugs. Each card includes: Generic and common name Dosage Forms Approved Dose and Indications Off-Label Use Contraindications Adverse Reactions Drug Interactions Monitoring Parameters Medication Safety Issues and Black Box Warnings Strong focus on patient safety Adverse reactions are organized by common, less common, and rare but serious to help you organize your thoughts for counseling patients, and a downloadable audio link enable you to hear key information your device.
As a working parent of 4-year-old triplet daughters, I understand time management presents one of the greatest barriers to my pharmacology students' success. Many students feel that cold sense of overwhelm and information overload. This easy-to-read guide organizes pharmacology into manageable, logical steps you can fit in short pockets of time. The proven system helps you memorize medications quickly and form immediate connections. With mnemonics from students and instructors, you'll see how both sides approach learning. After you've finished the 200 Top Drugs in this book, reading pharmacology exam questions will seem like reading plain English. You'll have a new understanding of pharmacology to do better in class, clinical and your board exam. You'll feel the confidence you'd hoped for as a future health professional. For patients and caregivers, this book provides a means to memorize medications to quickly and articulately communicate with your health providers.
Pharmacological knowledge among medical students can have a very short 'half life': students often fail not because they have failed to study, but because they have been unable to retain key knowledge and reproduce it in an exam setting. This book takes an alternative route to the conventional approach of comprehensively exploring each individual drug and its features: not only can such an approach overwhelm and make knowledge retention difficult, but the current exam format makes questions structured in this way unlikely anyway. Instead of aiming to be completely comprehensive, it examines drugs systematically by classifications, mechanisms of action, therapeutic uses and side effects, enabling students to gain the distilled, functional grasp of pharmacology that their exams actually demand quickly and clearly.
Many medical, nursing, and pharmacy students think that it is really difficult to remember all the drugs so they say, just memorize whatever you can. There is a way or a "hack" to remember all the 200 drugs. You can do this by grouping them basedon their use, the organs or systems they affect, knowing the most commonly used prefixes, roots, and suffixes used in generic names of drugs. What do I mean by that?Here's an example: -al, a common suffix for drugs like tadalafil (Brand Name: Cialis) and sildenal (Brand Name: Viagra). These drugs fall under the category PDE inhibitor or phosphodiesterase inhibitor. These are drugs that are used for erectiledysfunction or ED. Another example is -sone, a suffix for a drug called fluticasone. Fluticasone is a corticosteroid. Corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory drugs so, it is safe to make the educated guess during a test that drugs that end in -sone (applies to generic names only) are steroids. Barbiturates, group of drugs used as anesthetics or antiepileptics, have the root -barb. Examples of these drugs are: phenobarbital and secobarbital. The suffix -olol is used for beta blockers. Beta blockers are drugs used for hypertension. Another one would be -statin, atorvastatin and simvastatin are used to lower elevated cholesterol levels and these drugs are classified as antihyperlipidemics or HMG Co-enzyme A Reductase Inhibitor. Statins are used to lower elevated cholesterol levels in the blood.Yes, studying DRUGS can be gruesome. Students, more often than not, get overwhelmed by so much information given to them to study all at once. A lot of them give up due to information overload or anxiety that comes with seeing all the thick textbooks and materials that need to be covered, studied, understood and tested on. This is why I organized not just the Top 200 Drugs but, the Top 250 Drugs in this book for you by their class and I included the cheat codes in memorizing them easily.Students also told me that the list was no good since "the list doesn't talk to them" like I do during lectures and they do not know how to pronounce half the drugs on the list. Oh yeah, I hear you say that, too, "Yeah, it's a nice and handy list but, I do not know how to say or pronounce more than half of these drugs, if not all." You do not have to worry, I have made a compilation of my audio lectures from my live classes to go with this ebook so, MEMORIZING DRUGS CAN REALLY BE THIS RIDICULOUSLY EASY and the link is inside the book.Repetition is key to remembering anything. And by you carrying me, I mean, carrying this ebook with you everywhere you go, you can pull it out anytime, anywhere, for a quick study or review. I will be with you everywhere you go, I promise and because I really want you to succeed, I included a list of the Top 250 Drugs, instead of just the Top 200 Drugs. -Prof. Lohner
THE #1 Drug Guide for nurses & other clinicians...always dependable, always up to date! Look for these outstanding features: Completely updated nursing-focused drug monographs featuring 3,500 generic, brand-name, and combination drugs in an easy A-to-Z format NEW 32 brand-new FDA-approved drugs in this edition, including the COVID-19 drug remdesivir—tabbed and conveniently grouped in a handy “NEW DRUGS” section for easy retrieval NEW Thousands of clinical updates—new dosages and indications, Black Box warnings, genetic-related information, adverse reactions, nursing considerations, clinical alerts, and patient teaching information Special focus on U.S. and Canadian drug safety issues and concerns Photoguide insert with images of 439 commonly prescribed tablets and capsules
The Pharmacy Calculation Workbook provides 250 calculation questions to prepare for the demanding NAPLEX and PTCB Exam. Master exam topics with intensive practice in the areas you'll find on the test. All questions are test-level difficulty and focused solely on helping you pass. Whether you’re challenging the exam for the first time or trying again after an unsuccessful attempt, you will learn the critical skills needed to master the exam. Included are practice questions for the following topics: • Calculation Fundamentals • Dilutions and Concentrations • Density and Specific Gravity • Patient Specific Dosing • Intravenous Infusions and Flow Rates • Compounding • Reducing and Enlarging Formulas • Expressions of Concentration • Electrolyte Solutions • Nutrition Support • Isotonic and Buffer Solutions • Pharmaceutical Conversions
Studying DRUGS can be gruesome. Students studying medicine, pharmacology or pharmacy, nursing, more often than not, get overwhelmed by so much information given to them to study all at once. A lot of them give up due to information overload or anxiety that comes with seeing all the thick textbooks and materials that need to be covered, studied, understood and tested on.I know, I get it! I was in pharmacy school then, MBA school years ago and my professors didn't make it easy on us, for us. We didn't have this technology then that we have now. We only had textbooks and the library. No ebooks, mobile apps, nor internet. I finished and have diplomas on both but, I wouldn't lie, it wasn't easy at all!I was overwhelmed like you. I had panic attacks like you do. I had test anxiety like every other student in this planet has.This is exactly why I wrote this book for you. I don't want you to go through all that pain and suffering I went through trying to become a medical professional, or just simply passing my classes. Remembering DRUGS shouldn't be that difficult.I know some of you wouldn't believe me but, you have to TRUST me on this (I did almost a decade of schooling after high school and I have been teaching millennials, I mean, adult learners, the last 11 years). You have to give me some credit.I often say, "Funny sticks in the mind." If you can associate a drug with something funny, be it in another language you know of, it sticks in the brain. Also, grouping them by use or the organ/s they affect is the key to remembering them. But hey, wait! It doesn't end there. If you know the "secret codes" and you can identify them on the "not-so-easy-to-remember" generic names, you are golden! You are going to pass any test on drug names and their use or class.Disclaimer: These "secret codes" apply to generic names only.The United States Food and Drug Administration came up with a list of Most Commonly Used Generic Drug Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes. I give this list to all my students, as soon as they start a Pharmacology class with me, to help them remember drugs easily. But every time, I quiz them on it during a lecture, I get a blank stare -- as if I was talking gibberish or in some other language no one understands. Until, students told me that the list was no good since "the list doesn't talk to them"like I do and they do not know how to pronounce half the drugs on the list. Oh yeah, I hear you say that, too, "Yeah, it's a nice and handy list but, I do not know how to say or pronounce more than half of these drugs, if not all." You do not have to worry, I have made a compilation of my audio lectures from my live classes to go with this ebook so, MEMORIZING DRUGS CAN REALLY BE THIS RIDICULOUSLY EASY and the link is inside the book. Repetition is key to remembering anything. And by you carrying me, I mean, carrying this ebook with you everywhere you go, you can pull it out anytime, anywhere, for a quick study or review that's why, it's called a CHEAT SHEET! I will be with you everywhere you go, I promise. -Prof. Lohner
