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Adult pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)

Code: LÄÄ0202A20S-3035

General information


Timing

01.01.2024 - 31.07.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Teachers

  • Minna Partanen-Rytilahti
  • Paula Ropponen

Groups

  • H-S23shpä
  • 16.01.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ02 / Aloitusluento
  • 17.01.2024 09:00 - 11:00, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskennan luento
  • 30.01.2024 09:00 - 12:00, LÄÄ02 / Luento
  • 13.02.2024 12:15 - 13:45, LÄÄ02 / Lääkelaskennan tentti
  • 28.02.2024 09:00 - 11:15, LÄÄ02 / Luento
  • 01.03.2024 09:00 - 12:00, 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