Pharmacotherapy for Populations

3 credits · School of Nursing

This didactic course is the second in a series examining pharmacologic concepts for nursing practice. Integration of pharmacogenetics, pharmacokinetics, health promotion, social determinants of health, and genetics and genomics influencing person-centered drug therapy across the lifespan will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the implications of drug therapy for individual patient populations including 1) children and adolescents with acute and chronic illnesses, and 2) individuals with psychiatric/mental health disorders. Exploration of prototype drugs within major drug classifications and safe medication calculation and administration will foster evaluation of the safety and efficacy of patient pharmacologic regimens in the clinical practice setting. The role of the nurse in modeling safe medication education, administration, evaluation, and documentation will be discussed. Prerequisites: 5600, 5610, 5615, 5625, 6022 and 8212. Corequisite: 5715 and 8214. [3]