LÄÄ04MK24PMK Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in mental health and substance abuse work (1 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0401A20S-3023
General information
Enrollment
11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023
Timing
12.02.2024 - 24.03.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Virtual portion
1 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Campus
Pieksämäki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 300
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Johanna Pirttisalo
- Hanna Kolehmainen
Groups
-
E53sh
- 15.02.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ04/ info ja luento
- 26.02.2024 12:30 - 15:30, LÄÄ04/ Luento
- 18.03.2024 09:30 - 11:00, LÄÄ04/ lääkelaskennantukipaja
- 18.03.2024 12:00 - 15:00, LÄÄ04/ tentti teoria ja laskut
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
Evaluation scale
0-5