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Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in mental health and substance abuse workLaajuus (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0401A20S

Credits

1 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

10.02.2025 - 30.03.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

0.5 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 50

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • HKI-K24sh-lh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

10.02.2025 - 23.03.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

0.5 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus
  • Pieksämäki
Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 80

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
  • Hanna Kolehmainen
Groups
  • PMK-S23sh
  • JNS-S23shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 16.02.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 80

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • HKI-S23sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 16.02.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

0.5 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus
  • Pori
  • Oulu
Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Mirja Isoviita
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
Groups
  • POR-S23th
  • OUL-S23sh
    OUL-S23sh
  • POR-S23sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

23.09.2024 - 20.10.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
Groups
  • OUL-S23sh-lh
    OUL-S23sh-lh
  • I54shd
    I54shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

12.08.2024 - 22.09.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A54sh
    A54sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

12.08.2024 - 27.10.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A54shd
    A54shd
  • A54th
    A54th

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

12.02.2024 - 31.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A54sh-lh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

12.02.2024 - 24.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Pieksämäki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 300

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
  • Hanna Kolehmainen
Groups
  • E53sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Evaluation scale

0-5

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

15.01.2024 - 18.02.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A53sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

15.01.2024 - 25.02.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
Groups
  • I53sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Evaluation scale

0-5

Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 04.02.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Sinikka Paukkunen
Groups
  • F53sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Evaluation scale

0-5

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

21.08.2023 - 22.09.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A52sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

14.08.2023 - 17.09.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
Groups
  • I52shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

14.08.2023 - 27.10.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A52th
  • A52shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

13.02.2023 - 31.03.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Pieksämäki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • E51sh
    E51sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

23.01.2023 - 24.02.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Johanna Pirttisalo
Groups
  • I51sh
    I51sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

16.01.2023 - 24.02.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A51sh
    A51sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

16.01.2023 - 31.03.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A52sh-lh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

09.01.2023 - 03.02.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Sinikka Paukkunen
Groups
  • F51sh
    F51sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

22.08.2022 - 30.09.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A50sh
    A50sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

15.08.2022 - 28.10.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A50shd
    A50shd
  • A50th
    A50th

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

15.08.2022 - 16.09.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • I50shd
    I50shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

14.02.2022 - 18.03.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Pieksämäki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Tuija Rönkä
Groups
  • E49sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

24.01.2022 - 01.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A50sh-lh
    A50sh-lh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

24.01.2022 - 25.02.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Karoliina Salminen
  • Tuija Rönkä
Groups
  • I49sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

17.01.2022 - 25.02.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A49sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

17.01.2022 - 01.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
  • Eeva Nykänen
Groups
  • A49th
  • A49shd

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics

Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

10.01.2022 - 04.02.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes
  • BA in Health Care
Teachers
  • Karoliina Salminen
Groups
  • F49sh

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-monitoring to patients and their immediate circle
- know how to execute the various forms of drug calculations without errors and understand the significance of the operations in nursing

Content

- patient safety
- characteristics of pharmacotherapy
- drug and medication safety
- the most common drug ingredient groups and their areas of use, modes of action and routes of administration
- therapeutic effects of medicines, side and joint effects and mechanisms of combined action
- self-medication
- pharmacotherapy guidance, committing and engaging to treatment
- applications of drug mathematics