Reflecting on this ATI practice exam, I am proud of my score and understanding of pharmacology material. I was kind of surprised at how much I remembered because I feel like when it comes to pharmacology my brain seems to shut off. I think I performed best in the patient teaching and explaining mechanism of actions for each medication. During my preceptorship, I had a lot of patient interactions regarding patients asking about their medications and why they had to take them. It required me to pull knowledge from my pharmacology class and apply it in order to provide care for my patients. 

An area I want to work on more is understanding adverse effects of medications. I feel like I have a good understanding of how to measure therapeutic effectiveness of medications, but I seem to lack some when it comes to adverse and unexpected effects of medications. Before taking the next practice test, I want to review adverse effects of common medications such as antihypertensives, diabetic medications, psychiatric medications, pain medications, antilipemic, etc. I think this will be beneficial because these are some of the most common medications on exams but also seen in the clinical practice.