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LÄÄ02MK24HKI-SHD/TH Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3027

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 11.02.2024

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

Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

  • Henna Mäkinen

Groups

  • A54shd
    A54shd
  • A54th
    A54th
  • 08.01.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento 1
  • 08.01.2024 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 11.01.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskupaja, ryhmä A
  • 11.01.2024 10:15 - 14:00, LÄÄ02 / Luento 2
  • 11.01.2024 14:15 - 15:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskupaja, ryhmä B
  • 12.01.2024 13:00 - 14:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskennan tukipaja ZOOM
  • 22.01.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento 3
  • 22.01.2024 13:00 - 14:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskutentti
  • 06.02.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskukertaus ja lääkelaskujen uusintatentti
  • 06.02.2024 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkehoidon teoriatentti

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