LÄÄ02PS23HKI Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3023
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023
Timing
14.08.2023 - 22.09.2023
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Helsinki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 333
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Henna Mäkinen
Groups
-
A53sh
- 14.08.2023 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento
- 15.08.2023 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
- 22.08.2023 12:00 - 14:45, LÄÄ02 / Luento
- 22.08.2023 15:00 - 16:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta, ryhmä A
- 24.08.2023 12:30 - 14:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta, ryhmä B
- 30.08.2023 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento
- 07.09.2023 09:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskukertaus + lääkelaskutentti
- 13.09.2023 09:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Teoriatentti + lääkelaskujen uusintatentti
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