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LÄÄ01MK22OUL Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3015

General information


Enrollment

13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021

Timing

24.01.2022 - 25.02.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Niina Patronen

Groups

  • I51sh
    I51sh

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

Evaluation scale

0-5