NUR-500 |
Adv Pharmacotherapeutics for Adv Nursing |
This course will cover selected topics in pharmacology and clinical therapeutics that are important in advanced nursing roles. Lectures cover the basics of pharmacologic mechanisms, dose-response relationships, pharmacokinetics( in children, adolescents, adults, elderly and pregnant women) and factors that alter a drug ' s bioavailability. Pharmacological agents include: autonomic, analgesics, anti-infective drugs and agents affecting the central nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory and GI systems. In addition, this course will discuss safe prescribing of controlled substances including opioids. The implications of age, pregnancy and lactation on drug action will be considered. Pharmacogenomics, human drug testing, drug laws, herbal medicines, OTC drugs and nutritional agents will be discussed. |
3.00 |