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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