 Hi guys and welcome back to this video so today I want to talk about how to study for pharmacology when you are taking the NCLEX or just in general pharmacology is a huge part of nursing and I have talked to a ton of nursing students and like nine times out of ten pharmacology is their most difficult course of nursing school and it is something that students stress about when they take the NCLEX and more importantly beyond the NCLEX when you actually become a nurse and are going to be giving these medications. About 15% of NCLEX questions give or take are pharmacology related and that is a huge portion of the NCLEX and so if you aren't very strong in pharmacology it can really hurt your NCLEX score. I want to share an awesome resource for you guys called sketchy nursing and thank you sketchy nursing for sponsoring this video. I think it's really going to help you guys with preparing for the pharmacology portion of NCLEX and beyond. Also stay tuned because we are going to be doing a giveaway at the end of this video. I think one of the reasons why pharmacology is so difficult for us to like grasp and wrap our heads around is because you can't really see it. You can see that you're giving someone a pill or that you're pushing a medication but a lot of times it's hard to see what the medication is actually doing in the effects of it when it is at the microscopic level. You can see when someone has a demo or when they have a rash or you can listen to heart and lung sounds and kind of put the two and two together but it's really difficult to see pharmacology. I think as nurses a lot of us are hands-on visual learners and so one of the reasons why I love sketchy nursing is because it really plays into that visual learning aspect. They go over all of the different types of medications. It's divided up into body systems like cardiovascular, pulmonary, GI and they have creative fun stories that go along with each medication. I was very impressed when I logged on and they have these really creative short videos to help you remember medications. I actually did this a lot in nursing school to help me remember things with pharmacology and other nursing things. I would tell myself stories to help remember things even if they were so silly and weird. It would help me remember the medication or the diagnosis or the treatment and that is exactly what sketchy nursing is doing for you. You don't even have to come up with the stories. They're going to tell you these stories. They're going to have the visual video that goes along with it and it's going to help you remember the medications and you are more likely to remember things when you're actually comprehending, understanding it and you have an association that goes along with it. The other great thing about sketchy nursing is that once you've gone through some of the videos you can quiz yourself using their NCLEX style questions. They have over 600 questions on there and you can quiz yourself on these medications. I know when I was studying for the NCLEX I had a really hard time finding just a pharmacology section for the NCLEX. I felt like all the questions were kind of just mixed in and interlinked and so to be able to really focus on just one portion and really nail it down and get it solid it's not just going to benefit you for taking the NCLEX but beyond and bigger picture here the NCLEX is great. You have to pass it. You need to study for that test to get your RN but beyond that just because you have your RN doesn't necessarily mean that pharmacology is your strong suit as a nurse and truly every nurse should be very well versed in pharmacology because it is one of the highest categories where nurses make mistakes and errors and a lot of that comes down to just understanding why you're giving medications and how they work. Also we are going to be doing a giveaway for Sketchy Nursing. You can sign up for free on Sketchy Nursing's website which I will have linked down below but we also are going to be doing an awesome giveaway where three people are going to win a three month access to Sketchy Nursing. All of the giveaway instructions will be down below so make sure you go and enter and if you don't win here is a discount code for you guys. Thank you Sketchy Nursing for sponsoring this video and I hope you guys enjoy the giveaway. Check them out and I'll see you in my next video. Bye!