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Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3019

General information


Timing

01.01.2024 - 31.07.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Hanna Dombret
  • Sabina Hentilä

Groups

  • H-S22shpä
  • 29.01.2024 13:00 - 14:30, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskutentti
  • 12.02.2024 15:15 - 16:30, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskujen uusinta
  • 11.03.2024 12:00 - 15:00, LHO lopputentti

Objective

Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within child and adolescent nursing
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common child and adolescent diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to children and adolescents 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

Evaluation scale

0-5