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LÄÄ01MK23POR Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3023

General information


Enrollment

19.09.2022 - 09.10.2022

Timing

16.01.2023 - 03.03.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Karoliina Salminen
  • Ella Eronen-Levonen

Groups

  • F53sh

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