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LÄÄ05MS24HKI-SHA Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in child and adolescent work (1 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0501A20S-3026

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

26.08.2024 - 29.09.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Helsinki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Elina Pettinen

Groups

  • A53sha
  • 27.08.2024 08:30 - 09:00, LÄÄ05+LHO02/ aloitusinfo
  • 27.08.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ05/ Luento
  • 28.08.2024 11:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ05/ Lääkelaskutentti
  • 02.09.2024 12:00 - 15:00, LÄÄ05/ Luento
  • 02.09.2024 15:15 - 16:15, LÄÄ05/ Lääkelaskujen uusinta
  • 03.09.2024 15:15 - 16:15, LÄÄ05/ Lääkelaskujen uusinta
  • 10.09.2024 13:00 - 14:00, LÄÄ05/ Lääkelaskujen uusinta
  • 17.09.2024 10:00 - 11:00, LÄÄ05/ tentti

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