Nursing School Pharmacology – Antihypertensives: Episode 49

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	Hey everyone this is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the
0:14.6	Straight Day Nursing Podcast so excited to have you here with me today. This is episode 49 and today we are talking about anti-hypertensive pharmacology.
0:27.0	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, but for the
0:36.7	most part what you guys will be seeing, especially as first semester students, is patients who have blood pressure that is too high.
0:45.5	So they have hypertension and they need an anti-hypertensive medication to keep their blood pressure
0:51.0	under control. And I know a lot of you email me or reach out on social media
0:57.0	and tell me over and over again how you are struggling so much
1:01.0	with pharmacology. And I'm so sorry that that is the case for you.
1:05.2	I was super lucky that my pharmacology class was entirely open book so it was
1:11.9	still difficult because the instructor still asked very thought-provoking quiz questions,
1:17.0	but I had my text and I could look things up and that saved me because I feel like memorizing things for
1:25.0	which you don't really have a lot of contextual information is kind of a
1:29.7	waste of time and you're basically just memorizing. Once you're working and actually using these
1:36.6	medications you start to learn them because you learn them in the context of how you're
1:40.8	using them, how they are part of the whole treatment plan for the patient and how they
1:46.5	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.
2:00.0	So for anti-hypertensive medications, there are several drug classes of meds that
2:08.0	will create a lower blood pressure in your patients. So we'll go through each of these drug classes in turn, but first let me tell you what they are.
2:17.6	We have the calcium channel blockers, the ACE inhibitors, the ARBs,
2:24.9	B's or Angio Tenson receptor blockers,
2:28.2	we have vasodilators, diuretics, and adrinergic blockers.
2:35.0	So that's five different drug classes and a lot of times patients will be on drugs from
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