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LÄÄ05PK24HKI-SHD/TH Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3022

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 04.02.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

  • Elina Pettinen
  • Pirkko Natri

Groups

  • A52th
  • A52shd
  • 10.01.2024 13:30 - 16:30, LÄÄ05 / Aloitusinfo, luento ja lääkelaskutentti
  • 18.01.2024 09:30 - 12:30, LÄÄ05 / Luento
  • 25.01.2024 09:00 - 11:15, LÄÄ05 / Lääkehoidon tentti ja lääkelaskenta
  • 30.01.2024 15:45 - 16:45, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskut, uusinta

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