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LÄÄ05MK24OUL Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3023

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 31.03.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 333

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Sini Hiltunen

Groups

  • I52shd
  • 10.01.2024 09:00 - 10:00, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskutentti
  • 27.02.2024 09:00 - 10:00, LÄÄ05 / Lääkelaskujen uusintatentti
  • 29.02.2024 12:00 - 14:15, LÄÄ05 / Luento
  • 12.03.2024 12:30 - 14:45, LÄÄ05 / Luento
  • 25.03.2024 10:15 - 11:45, LÄÄ05 / Lääkehoidon verkkotentti

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