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
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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