NURS 3312 Strategies for Professional Nursing: Pharmacotherapeutics

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course introduces basic concepts of pharmacotherapy and the scientific basis of pharmacotherapeutics with legal/ethical guidelines for the nursing profession. The role of drug therapy in health promotion and in the prevention and treatment of specific health transitions will be emphasized. In addition, the customization of drug therapy and the partnership role of the professional nurse in drug therapy will be introduced.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Examine the role of drug therapy in relation to health promotion, disease prevention, and specific health transitions.

2. Incorporate understanding of drug classifications and actions to identify relevant assessment data, appropriate nursing goals and interventions, and evaluation data.

3. Identify the need for customization of drug therapy based on individual patient variables.

4. Integrate knowledge of physical and behavioral sciences with legal/ethical guidelines to plan safe and effective implementation of pharmacotherapeutics.

5. Using a partnership model, describe how the nurse prepares patients and their families to anage self-pharmacotherapeutics.

6. Demonstrate scholarship for the acquisition and application of new knowledge to practice.

7. Explain how the critical thinking process is used to plan safe and effective drug therapy.