Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2cr)
Course unit code: LÄÄ0102A20S
General information
- Credits
- 2 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Objective
Students
- understand pharmacotherapy as part of patient safety and are familiar with the documentation of dangerous and complication events in pharmacotherapy
- understand their responsibility for their actions during training
- understand the basics of general pharmacology and pharmacy
- know how to look for and apply information on medication from drug databases
- know how to guide patients in pharmacotherapy and the interpretation of an electronic prescription
- know how to execute basic drug calculations without errors
Content
- the statutory basis governing pharmacotherapy
- pharmacotherapy plan
- basics of safe pharmacotherapy, dangerous and complication event reports
- responsibilities and obligations of a nursing student during the education
- pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, toxicology
- pharmaceutical service
- drug databases and electronic prescriptions
- basics of drug mathematics
Further information
AHOT 5/2021:
Diakin AHOT-ohjeet ja käytännöt.
Lääkelaskujen osaaminen tulee osoittaa suorittamalla lääkelaskennan tentti hyväksytysti.
Vaihtoehtoinen suoritustapa 8/2022:
Verkkotesti kaikille lh-taustaisille (korvaa ahot-hakemuksen). Mikäli opiskelija ei läpäise verkkotestiä, hän osallistuu opintojaksolle.
LÄÄ01 lääkelaskujen ja lääkehoidon opintojen tulee olla suoritettuna ennen HAR2 -harjoittelua.