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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