Basics of Pharmacotherapy (5 cr)
Code: TH00BY16-3004
General information
Enrollment
02.07.2024 - 12.09.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Reino Tissari
- Sanna Ojala
Scheduling groups
- Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
- Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 15. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
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PKATIS24
Small groups
- 1
- 2
- 04.09.2024 12:00 - 14:00, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 04.09.2024 15:00 - 17:00, Vapauttava lääkelasku, Nestehoito TH00BV83-3007
- 16.09.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Lääkelaskupaja 1, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 30.09.2024 09:00 - 11:00, Lääkelaskupaja 2, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 01.10.2024 08:00 - 10:00, Lääkelaskupaja 3 , Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 04.10.2024 12:00 - 14:00, etänä Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 10.10.2024 08:00 - 12:30, ALOITUS klo 8.00 Lääkehoidon 1. teemapäivä
- 14.10.2024 08:00 - 14:00, LABRA 1 Lääkehoidon rastit, Akuutisti sairastuneen ja vammaut. potilaan hoito sairaalassa TH00BV99-3004
- 14.10.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 15.10.2024 08:00 - 12:00, LABRA 2 Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 15.10.2024 12:00 - 16:00, LABRA 2 Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 23.10.2024 16:00 - 18:00, Rästipaja 4, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 24.10.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Lääkehoidon 2. teemapäivä
- 24.10.2024 13:00 - 15:00, Learning cafe, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 29.10.2024 13:00 - 17:00, Pienryhmä 1, LABRA 3, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 30.10.2024 08:00 - 12:00, Pienryhmä 2, LABRA 3, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 08.11.2024 08:00 - 10:15, aloitus klo 8.00 LABRA 4Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 08.11.2024 10:15 - 12:30, LABRA 4 Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 08.11.2024 12:30 - 16:00, Pienryhmä 2, Simulaatio, Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
- 15.11.2024 14:00 - 18:00, etänä Simulaatio Lääkehoidon perusteet TH00BY16-3004
Objective
The student:
• Students will comprehend the importance of ethical perspectives, legislation and evidence-based knowledge in decision-making regarding pharmacotherapy
• Students will understand the role of occupational and patient safety in pharmacotherapy and know how to act in order to promote medication safety in different phases of pharmacotherapy according to the pharmacotherapy plan
• Students will know how to describe effective, safe, efficient, appropriate and economic pharmaceutical services and pharmacotherapy in the context of social welfare and health care
• Students will know the roles and responsibilities of different professional groups and medication users in the provision of pharmacotherapy
• Students will become familiar with the basics of pharmacology and pharmacy required in nursing
• Students will know the responsibilities and duties of nurses as medication administrators throughout the treatment process
• Students will know the reliable evidence-based sources of information in pharmacotherapy and how to apply them
• Students will know how to perform pharmacotherapy by using various routes of administration safely and applying the aseptic technique and how to use the required instruments correctly
• Students will know how to perform pharmacotherapy according to the physician’s instructions and have the mathematical skills and dosage calculation skills required in pharmacotherapy
• Students will understand the objectives of pharmacotherapy and the significance of personal guidance and commitment to pharmacotherapy in the patient’s overall treatment regimen
• Students can assess their own pharmacotherapy skills with the medication passport
Content
Contents:
• Key regulations and basics of ethics
• Guidance and supervision of pharmacotherapy
• Safety of medicinal products and pharmacotherapy
• Key concepts and sources of information of pharmacotherapy
• Doses of medications and how they affect the body
• Pharmaceutical forms and administration methods
• Primary adverse reactions and interaction with other medicinal products
• Pharmacotherapy plan and the safety of the pharmacotherapy process
• Pharmacotherapy equipment and aseptic techniques
• Documentation
• Guidance and counselling
• Dosage calculation
• The role of the medication passport in assessing your competence
Evaluation scale
H-5