LÄÄ01MK23OUL Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3022
General information
Enrollment
19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022
Timing
23.01.2023 - 24.02.2023
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
Teachers
- Leena Jurvelin
- Niina Patronen
Groups
-
I53sh
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