LÄÄ05MS22POR Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3007
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2022 - 18.03.2022
Timing
22.08.2022 - 28.10.2022
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
- Hanna Dombret
- Elina Pettinen
Groups
-
F49sh
Objective
Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within child and adolescent nursing
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common child and adolescent diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to children and adolescents 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