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
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PMK-S23sh
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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