Medical care and pharmacology (8 cr)

Objective

The student knows the key legislation and informational guidance regulating medication therapy and understands their significance in the overall medication therapy process.
The student is able to assess the critical points in the overall medication therapy process to implement the safe medication therapy as prescribed by a physician.
The student can explain the processes and stages of how a medication is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated in the body when administered through different routes.
The student is proficient in error-free medication calculations.
The student is able to use essential pharmacological knowledge in the planning, implementation, guidance, and evaluation of medication therapy.

Content

Regulatory basis for medication therapy
Medication treatment plan
Nurse's role, duties, and responsibilities in medication therapy
Self-medication
Medication therapy technology
Drug calculations
Implementation of medication therapy using different administration routes
Stages and effects of medication in the body
Monitoring, recording, checking, and evaluating the effects of medication therapy
Therapeutic effects, adverse effects, and interactions of medications, interaction mechanisms
Basics of pharmacology
Most common groups of drugs and their uses, mechanisms of action, and administration methods

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student expertly and comprehensively uses medication safety concepts and integrates them into coherent wholes.
The student is able to assess critical points related to the overall medication therapy process.
The student acts responsibly in the various stages of the overall medication therapy process.
The student masters error-free drug calculations.
The student acts responsibly, proactively, and flexibly in the given learning and operational environment to ensure the implementation of safe medication therapy.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to describe the stages and mechanisms of action of medications in the body by drug groups.
The student can describe blood products and their purposes.
The student can describe the essential content of the regulations affecting medication therapy. The student masters error-free drug calculations.
The student can use electronic databases and analyze the information they provide.
The student can use the aids needed for medication administration in a patient-centered manner.
The student uses an ethical knowledge base in the medication therapy decision-making process.
The student recognizes ethical issues in medication therapy.
The student can describe their own responsibility in the implementation of a patient's medication therapy.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student can name the key regulations affecting medication therapy.
The student can explain the stages of a medication administered in different ways in the body. The student can describe the nurse's responsibility in implementing a blood transfusion.
The student masters error-free drug calculations.
The student can name the key groups of drugs.
The student can create a medication therapy implementation plan.
The student can correctly administer medication through natural routes.
The student can carry out a blood transfusion according to the physician's order.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Failed:
The student does not achieve a satisfactory level