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LÄÄ02MS24POR Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3032

General information


Enrollment

01.03.2024 - 18.03.2024

Timing

05.08.2024 - 15.09.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

50 % Contact teaching, 50 % Distance learning

Campus

Pori

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 100

Degree programmes

  • BA in Health Care, Public Health Care
  • BA in Health Care

Teachers

  • Janita Laine-Ahola
  • Karoliina Salminen

Scheduling groups

  • pienryhmä 1 (Size: 1. Open UAS: 0.)
  • pienryhmä 2 (Size: 1. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • POR-S23th
  • POR-S23sh

Small groups

  • pienryhmä 1
  • pienryhmä 2
  • 08.08.2024 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Aloitus ja lääkehoidon luento 1
  • 19.08.2024 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkehoidon luento 2
  • 21.08.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 1 (pienryhmä 1)
  • 21.08.2024 10:15 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 1 (pienryhmä 2)
  • 23.08.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 2 (pienryhmä 2)
  • 23.08.2024 10:15 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 2 (pienryhmä 1)
  • 26.08.2024 08:30 - 11:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkehoidon luento 3
  • 27.08.2024 12:30 - 14:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 3 (pienryhmä 2)
  • 27.08.2024 14:15 - 15:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 3 (pienryhmä 1)
  • 09.09.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 4 (pienryhmä 1)
  • 09.09.2024 14:15 - 15:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta 4 (pienryhmä 2)

Objective

Students
- know how to plan safe pharmacotherapy for adults and draft a complication event report and understand its significance
- understand the basics of clinical pharmacology in pharmacotherapy of the most common adult diseases and know how to apply the information in nursing
- know how to guide pharmacotherapy and its self-supervision to patients and their immediate circle using a variety of methods
- 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
- 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