Study Guide

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders 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 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