#49: Nursing School Pharmacology – Antihypertensives

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

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Many of you have emailed or reached out on social media asking about help with nursing school pharmacology. One of the most common types of drugs you'll be seeing in the clinical setting are antihypertensives. So if you're struggling to remember beta blockers vs diuretics vs ace inhibitors. No worries! In this podcast episode we cover: * The drug classes: calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, vasodilators, diuretics and adrenergic blockers * Common drug names found in each class * Where in the body the drugs have their effect * WHY the drugs work to reduce blood pressure (this is key!) * What you, the amazing nurse, are going to watch for with each type ___________________ 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 including podquizzes, case studies and drills 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! Dosage Calculations Guide - Kick math anxiety to the curb and learn the basics of how to set up and perform dosage calculations using dimensional analysis. Includes 10 free practice questions! 💕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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0:44.7	Straight A Nursing Podcast so excited to have you here with me today. This is episode 49 and today we are talking about anti-hypertensive pharmacology.
0:57.0	If you listen to the podcast, last week we talked about a very new medication that we use in septic shock to increase blood pressure,
1:05.8	but for the most part what you guys will be seeing especially as first
1:10.4	semester students is patients who have blood pressure that is too high
1:14.8	so they have hypertension and they need an anti-hypertensive medication to
1:20.3	keep their blood pressure under control. And I know a lot of you email me or reach out on social media and tell me over and over again how you are struggling so much with pharmacology.
1:32.0	And I'm so sorry that that is the case for you.
1:35.4	I was super lucky that my pharmacology class was entirely open book.
1:40.1	So it was still difficult because the instructor still asked very thought-provoking quiz questions,
1:47.0	but I had my text and I could look things up and that saved me because I feel like memorizing things for
1:55.2	which you don't really have a lot of contextual information is kind of a
1:59.8	waste of time and you're basically just memorizing. Once you're working and actually
2:06.0	using these medications you start to learn them because you learn them in the
2:09.6	context of how you're using them, how they are part of the whole treatment plan for the patient and how they
2:16.6	work into your plan of care. So if you have to memorize and take closed book exams for pharmacology, I'm very sorry that that is happening to you. But maybe this will help a little bit.
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