LÄÄ03MS23PMK Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3024
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023
Timing
13.11.2023 - 17.12.2023
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning
Campus
Pieksämäki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Tiina Takku
Groups
-
E53sh
- 14.11.2023 09:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ03/ Aloitusluento
- 15.11.2023 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03/ Lääkehoidonteoria ja lasku tentit
- 21.11.2023 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03/ Luento
- 21.11.2023 12:15 - 15:30, Zoomissa
- 22.11.2023 12:15 - 14:15, LÄÄ03/ Lääkelaskut
- 12.12.2023 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ03/ Luento
- 12.12.2023 12:45 - 14:15, LÄÄ03/ Lääkelaskut
Objective
Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within elder care
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common diseases of the elderly 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 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
- 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
Evaluation scale
0-5