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LÄÄ03MS24OUL Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3032

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

30.09.2024 - 27.10.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Oulu

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Ulla Lahtela

Groups

  • OUL-S23sh
    OUL-S23sh
  • 03.10.2024 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 03.10.2024 14:15 - 15:45, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 22.10.2024 12:30 - 15:45, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 24.10.2024 12:30 - 15:45, LÄÄ03 / Teoria- ja laskutentti

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