Advanced Neonatal Pharmacotherapeutics

1 credits · School of Nursing

This course provides students preparing for roles within the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner specialty with knowledge of the pharmacotherapeutics for common classifications of drugs used to care for neonates and infants. Emphasis is placed on indications for correct drug choice, usual dose, and routes of administration in the neonate. Discussions of clinical judgments in the management and evaluation of pharmacologic therapeutic agents for neonatal use are emphasized. Prerequisite: Graduate level standing and admission to the NNP specialty. Can be taken as a special student with permission of the instructor. [1]