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LÄÄ04PK24HKI-SH Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in mental health and substance abuse work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0401A20S-3021

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

15.01.2024 - 18.02.2024

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

Teachers

  • Eeva Nykänen

Groups

  • A53sh
  • 17.01.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ04 / Aloitusluento
  • 22.01.2024 13:00 - 16:00, LÄÄ04 / Luento
  • 29.01.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ04 / Lääkehoidon tentti ja lääkelaskutentti
  • 05.02.2024 13:00 - 15:00, LÄÄ04 / Lääkelaskut, uusinta

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