A nursing student asks a nursing instructor whether there are any tips that will make learning pharmacology easier. The instructor gives an example of the anticoagulant heparin. The instructor indicates that knowing heparin and comparing other drugs to it will facilitate learning the many anticoagulants. Which approach is the instructor using?

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The instructor is using the prototype drug approach by using heparin as a basis for comparison with other anticoagulants. This approach focuses on learning one drug in a particular class and using it as a reference for understanding other drugs in the same class.

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