LÄÄ04PS23HKI-SHD/TH Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in mental health and substance abuse work (1 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0401A20S-3018
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023
Timing
14.08.2023 - 27.10.2023
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Helsinki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
- BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing
Teachers
- Eeva Nykänen
Groups
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A52th
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A52shd
- 16.08.2023 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ04 / Aloitusluento
- 25.09.2023 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ04 / Luento
- 17.10.2023 09:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ04 / Lääkehoidon tentti ja lääkelaskut
Objective
Students
- understand the characteristics of pharmacotherapeutic patient safety in the treatment of a patient with mental health and substance abuse problems
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common mental health problems and psychiatric disorders 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 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