LÄÄ03MK22OUL Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3012
General information
Enrollment
13.09.2021 - 05.10.2021
Timing
14.02.2022 - 20.05.2022
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
- Ulla Lahtela
Groups
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Objective
Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within elder care
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common diseases of the elderly 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 use drug databases and apply the information in pharmacotherapy
- 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