Drug Care and Calculations (3cr)
Course unit code: THO1E3
General information
- Credits
- 3 cr
Objective
Students understand their professional responsibility for securing and promoting the safety of patients receiving drug and fluid care. Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate safe drug and fluid care. They are able to dispense pharmaceutical dosage forms correctly. They know how to safely administer intracutanous, subcutanous and intramuscular injections. Students know how to observe side and combined effects of medicines and how to evaluate the effectiveness of drug care. They perform drug calculations correctly.
Content
The nurse/public health nurse and drug care. Provision of pharmaceuticals in hospital and out-of-hospital care. Handling and storage of medicines. Drug calculations. Drug safety and responsibility for informing those involved, administering IC, SC and IM injections. Effective mechanisms, side and combined effects of drugs. Evaluation of the patient's drug care. Action in risk situations.
Qualifications
Basics of Drug Care
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Safe Drug and Fluid Care during the early phase of the studies.
Materials
Saano Susanna ja Taam-Ukkonen Minna. Lääkehoidon käsikirja. 2013. SanomaPro. Saatavuus: http://plari.amkit.fi/vwebv/holdingsInfo?sk=fi_FI&bibId=103593
Ernvall S. et. al. 2009. Lääkelaskenta. 9. uud. painos. WSOY., Saatavuus: http://plari.amkit.fi/vwebv/holdingsInfo?sk=fi_FI&bibId=89739
Lääkelaki,
STM. 2006. Turvallinen lääkehoito. Saatavuus: http://plari.amkit.fi/vwebv/holdingsInfo?sk=fi_FI&bibId=70841
Current study materials