Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics

Pharmacy Flashcards and Fill-Ins for the Future Nurse, Doctor, Physician Assistant, and Pharmacist

By: Tony Guerra

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

This fast and easy pharmacology review through mnemonics recognizes that many future nurses, doctors, physician assistants, and pharmacists (chemists) have families, jobs, and other responsibilities. Do you have time enough time to make 100 percent sure you will pass in the classroom or on the board exam? For most students taking the NCLEX, NAPLEX, USMLE Step-1, PANCE, GPHC, or KAPS exam, the answer is no.

I wrote this mnemonic guide as an audiobook first to help you remember pharmacology drug names and principles quickly. While in the classroom your professors might say memorization doesn't matter, but you can't bring outside material to the board exam, so for this test, you do need to work on memory training. You already know the consequences of failing a class or board exam, so let's make sure that doesn't happen by getting pharmacology organized in your head once and for all.

©2018 Tony Guerra (P)2018 Tony Guerra

Great for auditory learners!

I was able to visualize the content while listening via audible. Great for modern day students!

Helped with Exam

I am currently a nursing student taking a pharmacology course and this book was a great resource for studying for my exams. We just took an exam about the neurological medications and this book was a good help in studying for that exam. The APEZZ acronym and RESTT acronyms helped me remember a number of these medications.
I would use this audiobook while I was driving to school and back because I have a 15 minute drive, so it was nice to use this to listen, learn, and study for this upcoming exam. It was extremely helpful to listen to this while I was driving because it let my brain absorb the information easier than just reading it over and over again.
This audiobook was helpful in reviewing acronyms for certain drug names and also certain drug side effects and I sometimes would just go back and replay the acronyms over and over again and write them down at the same time to help remember them and make sure I understood them and where they came from.
I highly recommend this book, especially in audio form to help study for exams!

Great listen

I might not have made it the whole way through yet, but its a great listen!!!

Helpful

In the beginning of the class I was struggling and then I started using memorizing pharmacology. It helped me remember the different types of drugs. This is a great resource for a nursing student. I start using mnemonics and then I start to understand the medication more. My grades and exams improved. I would recommend the audiobook because it provides a clear pronunciation of medications. I highly recommend this audiobook for someone who is trying to improve their learning in pharmacology

Very Helpful

This book was a great resource for my pharmacology class! I would listen to the book while driving or while making dinner, the perfect times to squeeze in a little more studying. I found the book to be straightforward and on task. It really helped me get the grades I wanted on the tests!
The insulin mnemonic was especially helpful in remembering the different insulin types, in order of how quickly they work.
I also thought the ABDUCT (Anhydrosis, Blurry Vision, Dry Mouth, Urinary Retention, Constipation, Tachycardia) mnemonic was helpful for the anticholinergics.
I highly recommend the book to all nursing students, pharmacy students, or pre-med students taking pharmacology! It's a life saver!

REALLY Helpful !!!

This is really helpful coming from a Doctor of Pharmacy! I'm impressed and confident this will help me in my profession and on my board exams.

Great resource for nursing students!!

This is a great resource for nursing students! When you look at the big picture of trying to memorize drugs names it is quite hard. It is so hard for me to sit and read a book especially when I do not know how to pronounce most of the words. This audiobook helped shorted my study time down and helped me actually retrain the information. It is also great because you can put in on and play it wherever you are. The mnemonics is also a great way to help with the drugs you are struggling with and also make studying kind of fun. Here are some of my favorite mnemonics so far.
ABDUCT- This helped me a lot when studying anticholinergic effects!
A-anhydrosis
B- Blurry vision
D- Dry eyes
U- Urinary retention
C- Constipation
T- Tachycardia
Another mnemonic that helped was RIPER. It helped with learning anti-tuberculosis drugs.
Rifampin
Isoniazid
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol
Rifabutin

Jo

This book was extremely helpful especially for the Neuro chapters. the drug names that had similar endings scared me at first sight, but after reading the whole paragraph of each drug i mastered them easily. He has these little stories and made up words that really rhyme in your head and allow you to remember the brand and generic names easily. The Orange book used with the blue Memorizing pharmacology will allow you to succeed any pharmacology course.

So Helpful!!

This audiobook is not only extremely helpful to listen to on my commute but it keeps me entertained! Dr. Guerra really connects with the audience and I'm actually retaining information. As a P3 about to start rotations, this has been such a help and I feel much more confident walking into my rotations. I highly recommend this audiobook!!

Great Resource for Nursing Students!

As a nursing student I am always trying to find a way to shorten the amount of time I am studying but, also wanting to retain the information I am learning. Mnemonics are a great and useful tool for me! Although I would not use mnemonics for all 400 drugs, it has helped tremendously a good amount of the drugs needed to learn! Listening to the audio book hands-free and anywhere is very beneficial when I am driving for long periods of time, at appointments, shopping, etc! Some mnemonics that stuck with me are:

ABDUCT for Anticholinergic Side Effects. This was a very simple and easy way to remember the side effects and was also used a lot when dealing with gastrointestinal medications.

A: Anhidrosis
B: Blurry vision
D: Dry eyes
U: Urinary retention
C: Constipation
T: Tachycardia

GRAM NEGATIVES for Aminoglycosides helped me because the mnemonic matched the type of medication. This mnemonic also had not only the symptoms, but also the medication names.

G: Gram-negative
R: Renal toxic
A: Aura toxic
M: Monitor peaks

N: Neomycin/ Polymyxin B
E
G: Gentamicin
A: Amikacin
T: Tobramycin
I: Inhibit protein synthesis
V
E
S: Streptomycin