LÄÄ01MS22HKI (SH) Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3019
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022
Timing
22.08.2022 - 14.10.2022
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Helsinki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 300
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
- BA in Health Care
- BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
- Mirjami Huuskonen
- Minna Partanen-Rytilahti
Scheduling groups
- A (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- B (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
A52sh
Small groups
- pienryhmä 1
- pienryhmä 2
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