Drug Care and Calculations (3cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

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.

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

Teaching methods

Lectures. Case studies. Simulation. Drug calculations. Workshop. Online learning. Study visit. Compulsory attendance in contact teaching. Independent study.

Employer connections

The course consists of exercises and theoretical studies

Student workload

Will be announced in the course implementation plan

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment criterias written in the study entity of Safe Drug and Fluid Care during the early phase of the studies.

Qualifications

Basics of Drug Care