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LÄÄ02MK24JNS/PMK Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3034

General information


Enrollment

11.10.2023 - 29.10.2023

Timing

04.03.2024 - 26.05.2024

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 - 333

Degree programmes

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

Teachers

  • Paula Kukko
  • Karoliina Salminen
  • Juhani Toivanen
  • Hanna Kolehmainen

Scheduling groups

  • Joensuun ryhmä (Size: 30. Open UAS: 0.)
  • pienryhmä a (Size: 50. Open UAS: 0.)
  • pienryhmä b (Size: 50. Open UAS: 0.)
  • pienryhmä c (Size: 50. Open UAS: 0.)
  • pienryhmä d (Size: 50. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • PMK-S23sh
  • JNS-S23shd

Small groups

  • Joensuun ryhmä
  • pienryhmä a
  • pienryhmä b
  • pienryhmä c
  • pienryhmä d
  • 06.03.2024 08:30 - 09:15, LÄÄ02 / Info
  • 06.03.2024 09:15 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento
  • 16.04.2024 12:15 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento
  • 17.04.2024 12:15 - 13:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä c & d
  • 17.04.2024 12:30 - 13:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 17.04.2024 14:00 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä a & b
  • 17.04.2024 16:00 - 17:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskennan tukipaja
  • 18.04.2024 14:00 - 15:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 19.04.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Luento
  • 19.04.2024 12:15 - 13:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä a & b
  • 24.04.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä c & d
  • 25.04.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 25.04.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä a & b
  • 25.04.2024 10:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä a & b
  • 25.04.2024 16:00 - 17:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskennan tukipaja
  • 26.04.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta
  • 26.04.2024 08:30 - 10:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä c & d
  • 26.04.2024 10:00 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskenta / Pienryhmä c & d
  • 14.05.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Tentti
  • 23.05.2024 08:30 - 11:30, LÄÄ02 / Tentti

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