LÄÄ03PS24HKI Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3031
General information
Enrollment
01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024
Timing
16.09.2024 - 13.10.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Helsinki
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 100
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Eeva Kivelä
- Linnea Jokinen
Groups
-
HKI-S23sh
- 17.09.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ03 / Luento
- 24.09.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
- 24.09.2024 12:15 - 13:45, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta (ryhmä A)
- 26.09.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta (ryhmä B)
- 30.09.2024 08:45 - 11:45, LÄÄ03 / Luento
- 30.09.2024 12:45 - 14:15, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta
- 30.09.2024 14:15 - 15:15, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskutentti
- 09.10.2024 09:00 - 11:15, LÄÄ03 / Teoriatentti + mahdollista uusia lääkelaskutentti
Objective
Students
- understand the characteristics of patient safety in pharmacotherapy within elder care
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common diseases of the elderly 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 use drug databases and apply the information in pharmacotherapy
- 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