LÄÄ01MK25OUL Safe pharmacotherapy and drug calculations (2 cr)
Code: LÄÄ0102A20S-3050
General information
Enrollment
23.09.2024 - 13.10.2024
Timing
20.01.2025 - 23.02.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Virtual portion
0.5 op
Mode of delivery
75 % Contact teaching, 25 % Distance learning
Campus
Oulu
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
0 - 60
Degree programmes
- BA in Health Care
Teachers
- Ulla Lahtela
Scheduling groups
- pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
- pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
-
OUL-S24sh
Small groups
- pienryhmä 1
- pienryhmä 2
Objective
Students
- understand pharmacotherapy as part of patient safety and are familiar with the documentation of dangerous and complication events in pharmacotherapy
- understand their responsibility for their actions during training
- understand the basics of general pharmacology and pharmacy
- know how to look for and apply information on medication from drug databases
- know how to guide patients in pharmacotherapy and the interpretation of an electronic prescription
- know how to execute basic drug calculations without errors
Content
- the statutory basis governing pharmacotherapy
- pharmacotherapy plan
- basics of safe pharmacotherapy, dangerous and complication event reports
- responsibilities and obligations of a nursing student during the education
- pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, toxicology
- pharmaceutical service
- drug databases and electronic prescriptions
- basics of drug mathematics
Evaluation scale
0-5