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LÄÄ03MS24JNS/PMK Pharmacotherapy and drug calculations in elder care (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0302A20S-3033

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

21.10.2024 - 15.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

  • Pieksämäki

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care
  • BA in Health Care, Diaconal Nursing

Teachers

  • Tiina Takku
  • Hanna Kolehmainen

Scheduling groups

  • Joensuun ryhmä (Size: 55. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pieksämäen ryhmä (Size: 55. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • PMK-S23sh
  • JNS-S23shd

Small groups

  • Joensuun ryhmä
  • Pieksämäen ryhmä
  • 21.10.2024 12:15 - 15:30, LÄÄ03 / Info ja luento
  • 23.10.2024 09:00 - 10:30, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 25.10.2024 08:00 - 09:30, LÄÄ03 / Tentti ja muut uusinnat
  • 25.10.2024 10:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Tentti
  • 19.11.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 19.11.2024 12:15 - 13:45, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 20.11.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Luento
  • 22.11.2024 10:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Tentti
  • 04.12.2024 09:00 - 10:30, LÄÄ03 / Lääkelaskupaja (vapaaehtoinen)
  • 13.12.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Tentti
  • 13.12.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ03 / Tentti

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