Pharmacology

These two anticoagulants get mixed up constantly because they do the same job — prevent clots — but almost everything else about them is different. Learn them as a contrasting pair and the questions sort themselves out. The lab that monitors each is the classic test point. Warfarin is monitored by PT/INR; heparin is monitored

Pharmacological & Parenteral Therapies is the second-heaviest category (13–19% of your exam). You will never memorize every drug — and you don’t need to. The exam rewards understanding drug classes, safe administration, the labs that monitor key drugs, and the adverse effects worth reporting. The rights of medication administration Every med-administration item rests on these.