Midwifery and Women’s Health Pharmacology

Graduate / Professional

This portion of the advanced clinical pharmacology course is designed to prepare students in the midwifery and women’s health specialties to clinically apply principles of pharmacotherapy in the management of gynecologic/reproductive/sexual and primary health care conditions. Through employing the World Health Organization’s person-drug (p-drug) process, series of selected case studies, and online and class discussion, students learn of responsible prescribing, including identifying when medication treatment is appropriate, choosing the best medicines for therapy, and monitoring the efficacy and safety of medicines. This course is required for all nurse-midwifery and women’s health nurse practitioner students in the first year of specialization. Open to others with the permission of the instructor. Fifteen hours of content is presented over the course of the semester. 1 Course cr HTBA