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LÄÄ01PS22HKI (SHD,TH) safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3021

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022

Timing

22.08.2022 - 30.09.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 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
  • 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

  • A52th
  • A52shd

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