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LÄÄ02MK23OUL Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3017

General information


Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

16.01.2023 - 17.02.2023

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 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Leena Jurvelin
  • Niina Patronen

Groups

  • I52shd

Objective

Students
- know how to plan safe pharmacotherapy for adults and draft a complication event report and understand its significance
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common adult diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to patients and their immediate circle using a variety of methods
- 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
- 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