#13: Psychopharmacology Study Tips

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🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Is psychopharmacology causing you mental distress? So many drugs, so many side effects...it's a LOT to keep track of! Lucky for you I came up with a goofy way to remember key facts about these complex medications...and now I'm sharing it with you in this week's podcast of psychopharmacology study tips. In this episode we cover: * the atypical antidepressants * traditional antidepressants * atypical antipsychotics * traditional antipsychotics * mood stabilizers * anticonvulsants * anxiolytics * and more! Plus...bonus...I sing goofy songs. TWICE! Anything to help you guys! ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Pharmacology Success Pack - Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack. Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	Streaming Now. You're going to go. Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Straight Aid Nursing
0:51.6	podcast. This is episode 13 and today we are talking about something that was very
0:57.4	difficult for my classmates and myself and I hear about it a lot from other students is pharmacology and specifically psycho pharmacology.
1:09.4	All the meds for mental health and you will need to know these backwards and forwards for your
1:15.0	mental health exams also for your NCX. So I'm going to share with you today the
1:22.2	method that I used to study and master psychopharmacology
1:28.1	and go through basically the study guide that I used for that class.
1:33.4	So it's a little bit goofy, it might be a little bit
1:37.2	unconventional, but I'm telling you that it absolutely works.
1:41.9	So we're going to discuss each drug by class or each class of drugs
1:48.3	individually and we will start with the atypical antidepressants.
1:56.8	And when I say they're atypical,
1:58.9	this means that they're the newer drugs basically. And because they're the newer drugs basically and because they are the newer drugs they are most
2:06.0	likely going to be the ones that you see when you're taking care of your patients. So the atypical antidepressants,
2:16.5	we have the SSRIs, which is
2:24.2	is that an acronym, I guess that's an acronym that stands for selective
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