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LÄÄ03MS23HKI-SH-LH Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3027

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2023 - 19.03.2023

Timing

27.11.2023 - 15.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Eeva Kivelä
  • Linnea Jokinen

Groups

  • A54sh-lh
  • 27.11.2023 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 28.11.2023 12:00 - 14:15, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 01.12.2023 12:15 - 14:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 11.12.2023 09:30 - 12:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 12.12.2023 12:00 - 14:30, LÄÄ03 / Teoriatentti
  • 13.12.2023 13:00 - 15:30, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskutentti

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