Nursing Pharmacology · The Prototype Method

Shrink your med list.

Sort 12 medications into their drug classes and watch how much less you actually have to study. Works on your phone. Takes about 3 minutes.

Shrink a sample list

drug cards to make

The drug cards I never used

In nursing school, I was too cheap to spend $50 on drug cards. So I spent hours building the perfect drug card template in PowerPoint, retyped page after page from my drug guide, bought special cardstock, and printed them double-sided.

They were beautiful. And I never really used them. They were overwhelming, and everything on them was already in my drug book (today it's in an app on your phone).

Here's what I do instead: use the Prototype Method. Stop studying all the medications and start by identifying what drug class they're in. Choose one medication from that drug class to represent the whole class — that's your prototype. Study it well (preferably with the Silver Bullet Study System). On the test, answer questions about any medication from that drug class as if it were the prototype.

Try it

Pick a sample list. Sort it.

I'll hand you a sample med list, like one your instructor might give you. It's not every medication you'll need for that class. It's just enough to see how this works, so you can do the same thing with every med list you get.

Your sample med list

Select your sample med list from the drop-down box to get started.

Your sample study list

12 medications→ 4 prototypes

That's it. Instead of 12 drug cards, you study 4 medications, and you can answer questions about the other 8 as if they were the prototype.

Now make those prototypes stick

You just made your med list a lot smaller. Here's how to make it pay off on test day.

Imagine opening your pharm exam, seeing a medication you never studied, and knowing the answer anyway, because you understand exactly how its prototype works.

Inside the Study Like a Nurse Membership, the Silver Bullet Study System and my Pharmacology AI Tutor show you how to study each prototype so it actually sticks.

Less memorizing. More knowing.

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Shrink your med list.

Pick a sample list. Sort it.

You just made your med list a lot smaller. Here's how to make it pay off on test day.

Your med list just got smaller. Now make it stick.

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