LÄÄ02MS23POR Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3021
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023
Timing
07.08.2023 - 17.09.2023
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 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Janita Laine-Ahola
- Karoliina Salminen
Groups
-
F53sh
- 07.08.2023 12:30 - 15:45, LÄÄ02 / Orientaatio ja luento 1
- 10.08.2023 12:30 - 14:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
- 11.08.2023 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Luento 2
- 23.08.2023 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
- 23.08.2023 10:15 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
- 08.09.2023 12:30 - 15:45, LÄÄ02 / Luento 3
- 11.09.2023 12:30 - 14:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
- 12.09.2023 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Tentti
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