Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies

Pharmacological therapy refers to any therapy that involves medication. Parenteral therapy refers to therapy that is *not* administered by mouth, such as IV therapy. This section requires you to make judgments about which medications are appropriate, and how to calculate the dosage. You must also be able to evaluate the effects that the medication had on the patient. It also requires you to know how to give medication or feeding through the blood. This is one of the tougher sections on the NCLEX-RN.